As winter settles in and the days grow shorter, maintaining a vibrant and thriving garden might seem like a daunting task. However, with the right selection of winter-resilient plants, your garden can ...

THE presence of fire-blight of pear, an extremely destructive bacterial disease caused by Erwinia amylovora (Burrill) Winslow et al., has recently been confirmed in England. This represents the ...

A newly published scientific article in the journal Microbial Ecology reveals that ants combat a range of plant diseases, including those affecting apples. At the same time, ants hunt pests like ...

One of the greatest public health achievements in history, vaccines are credited for the massive decline of potentially dangerous diseases like measles and polio. Although the majority of families ...

The Canadian Chronic Disease Indicators (CCDI) provide information on chronic diseases, their determinants, and their risk and protective factors in Canada. Using an intuitive Data Tool, pan-Canadian ...

Native to China and Korea, the box tree moth spread to Europe in 2006 and the United States in 2021. They feed primarily on boxwood hedges, which are especially loved in formal gardens, as this ...

18, 2024. (Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP) COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish lawmakers on Monday agreed on a deal to plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest and natural ...

It is, therefore, important that farmers know, in particular, some plants that can be used to treat chicken diseases. These are pepper, aloe vera, sisal leaves, neem, papaya (papain), cinnamon ...

If a hedge contains only one kind of plant, the whole hedge or segments may be destroyed by pests or disease. The greater the number of species in the hedge, the greater the chance that only one ...

The molecule, which has been patented, can potentially be developed into a broad-spectrum biopesticide, helping plants such as crops resist diseases. "Once this biopesticide is put into use ...