Experts Warn These 3 Snakes Can Scale Your Fence—How to Protect Your House
https://bestlifeonline.com/snakes-can-scale-fences/
#Pests #News
#Pests
Essex County motel hopes new red lights keep keep fish flies at bay
Red lights outside a Colchester motel might look spooky — but the hope is that they'll keep fish flies at bay for their guests this year. The CBC's Jacob Barker reports.
#lighting #pests #business #EssexCounty #Colchester
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6801478?cmp=rss
The ACT could be looking down the burrow of a rabbit plague
By Lish Fejer
Rabbits were introduced to Australia during colonisation, with 'plagues' causing widespread environmental, agricultural and economic destruction. Nowadays the pest is controlled using biocontrol, but experts say without funding the population could soon be out of control.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-14/professional-shooters-patrol-parks-in-canberra/105401374
#Pests #AgriculturalPestControl #Animals #Environment #EnvironmentalManagement #LocalGovernment #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #Agriculture #EnvironmentalImpact #GovernmentandPolitics #LishFejer
Kangaroo control fast-tracked to help Victorian farmers in drought
By Justine Longmore
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan says kangaroos are putting pressure on pastures and has taken steps to speed up the control permit process.
#Droughts #RuralandRemoteCommunities #Farmers #NativeSpecies #Pests #JustineLongmore
Cane ToadS
Cane Toad at Anakie, QLD.
Cane Toad helpfully offering a shoulderful of toxin.
Two BIG ones out in the morning sun - after a cold night. Note white substance (toxin?) one is exuding on shoulder area.
This is up in QLD, at Anakie in the Gemfields region. These two hopped off (sort of grudgingly) when me and the hound approached. One sort of raised itself up a
https://slowcamping.com.au/index.php/2025/06/06/cane-toad/
#iNaturalist #Other #Pests #Queensland #Wildlife
🧵 I have a full basement. I don't like going down there, even though it's to be the home of my future toy train layout. It's dry, but dark... and spiders love it (cobwebs everywhere). I'm also visited occasionally by mice who want to start families (not every year). So I need to replace some light-bulbs that have gone out, update/improve the lighting, and add fans to move the air around and deter spiders (who greatly prefer to be undisturbed).
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Drivers Across the Country Are Finding Snakes Hiding in Their Cars—Here's Why
https://bestlifeonline.com/drivers-finding-snakes-in-cars/
#Pests #News
Don't you just hate it when squirrels (tree rats) chew their way into the ducts and make their way into the electrical room, chew through all of the wiring (heavy duty, 25-50 cm thick), get fried and the resulting short circuit causes severe damage from an electrical fire?
Yeah, that's exactly what happened on Tuesday morning. Now we have a temporary commercial generator powering the building until things get repaired. #squirrels #treerat #pests #outage #blackout #poweroutage #damage
"While there's certainly some truth behind the fact that coffee grounds can repel some bugs and insects, it turns out, it might not be as trusted a method as you originally thought."
#weird #thrifty #practical #diy #pests #Cringe #animals #nature #science
https://www.thespruce.com/does-coffee-grounds-repel-slugs-11739066
'Is this the year of another caterpillargeddon?' People in northern B.C. are spotting more tent caterpillars
People in northern B.C. have been noticing more and more tent caterpillars and a local bug expert says the next outbreak could be on the way in the next few years.
#insect #nature #pests #northernBC #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/caterpillars-b-c-insects-1.7547444?cmp=rss
Covered most of the accessible spots of the yard with repels all yesterday and last night, the deer took revenge by coming up on the porch and eating my sunflowers.
#deer #pests
#gardening
#deer #pests
#gardening
Bt proteins such as Vip3Aa are commonly used in #GMcrops to control lepidopteran #pests, but Vip3Aa resistance has been observed. This study identifies a gene in the crop pest #Helicoverpa armigera #CottonBollworm whose disruption confers resistance to Vip3Aa @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4kBtD89
These #bugs may be the oldest #pests #humans have had to deal with
https://bgr.com/science/these-bugs-may-be-the-oldest-pests-humans-have-had-to-deal-with/
May I add: ' and for your beloved #pests!'
Insects are awesome. If they become pests something is wrong with the garden.
Newsroom has a good article on the current NZ government ending the Predator Free 2050 Ltd agency in the recent Budget announcement.
Predator Free 2050 Ltd was set up by John Key's National government in 2016. The agency has led the ambitious project to achieve landscape-scale removal, and aspirationally national eradication, of some of NZ's worst predatory mammal pests.
The agency found out it was ending on the day the budget was announced.
Apparently the government is trying to make reassuring noises that everyting's fine and the predator free work will continue under the management of the Department of Conservation. That's the same department that keeps getting its budget cut and today announced a further 84 proposed job losses.
Hopefully all the conservation gains that have been made over the past decade can be sustained.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/26/it-was-a-bombshell-govt-culls-pest-eradication-company/
Wtf is is attacking my chilli plant? Powdery mildew?
edit: solved, it's edema, thanks everybody
The STELLA Integrated System (PSS) is an advanced digital platform that aims to improve the management of #plant pathogens and #pests in #agriculture 💡
Please take a few minutes to complete the following short survey which aims to collect information to ensure that STELLA PSS meets user expectations & help @stellahorizoneuproject develop a useful tool for agriculture & forests 💚
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stella-horizon-eu-project_assasjastastasrasfaszaslasnasrasnasb-asmaseasbasp-activity-7325840930173829123-0fHP?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAACcmbCYBCukF73CwAXB4AAJkSjFrBt8bVuY
(2/2) Use of synthetic #pesticides can lead to environment & #health concerns. #GMO technology can introduce pest resistance in crops. Bt #cowpeas with resistance to multiple #pests may significantly reduce pesticide use, providing #environment, health & economic benefits: doi.org/10.1002/ps.8...
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