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  1. Urban habitat transformation and fragmentation affect native lady beetle abundance

    https://grad.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/research-projects/denisha-parker

    as native lady beetles (Coccinellidae), may utilize urban greenspace for foraging habitats. To better ... understand how to implement conservation habitat for declining native lady beetle in urban areas, we need to ... vacant lot greenspaces affect native lady beetle community structure within the shrinking city of ...

  2. Exotic Tree Pest Generating Concern in Forestry/Nursery Industries

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/exotic-tree-pest-generating-concern-forestrynursery-industries

    beetle, known as the emerald ash borer, has been identified as Agrilus planipennis, and is generating ... similarly to other insects in the genus Agrilus, such as the bronze birch borer, a key pest of white-barked ... years is more common," said Herms. Infestations prove fatal because the larvae feed under the bark ...

  3. Storm Cleanup Good Opportunity to Check for Emerald Ash Borer

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/storm-cleanup-good-opportunity-check-emerald-ash-borer

    which feed on EAB larvae living under the trees bark. Other symptoms of EAB infestation € such as the ... sapwood € require that the bark be peeled off to detect them. A fact sheet with details and pictures of ... Diagnostic Check-off List under the Factsheets/Bulletins section of the Web site) or through local OSU ...

  4. Viburnum Chewer Makes Its Way Into Ohio

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/viburnum-chewer-makes-its-way-ohio

    hungry for the popular woody ornamentals. The viburnum leaf beetle, Pyrrhalta viburni, was recently ... sighting of the pest in U.S. territory occurred in 1996 in New York state. Since then, the beetle has ... viburnum leaf beetle is a very damaging, invasive pest," said Dan Herms, an entomologist with Ohio ...

  5. Sports Turf Managers Fighting Bugs by Going Green

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/sports-turf-managers-fighting-bugs-going-green

    green. That's why Dave Shetlar, Ohio State University Extension, will present “Cost Effective and ... Columbus. "There's concern about exposure to pesticides," said Shetlar, also known as the ... meet those expectations." In his talk, Shetlar will offer details to grounds staff, coaches, ...

  6. OCAMM odds & ends

    https://ocamm.osu.edu/news/ocamm-odds-ends-34

    factsheets on current recommended BMPS and on research gaps that need to be addressed.  |  Article The ...

  7. One Day Insect University

    https://ocvn.osu.edu/events/one-day-insect-university

    science plays in what we know about insects. Presenters include Mary Gardiner, Dave Shetlar, Reed Johnson ...

  8. Insecticidal and antifeedant properties of the medicinal plant Cinnamosma fragrans to control the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti

    https://grad.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/research-projects/edna-ariel-alfaro-inocente-0

    sesquiterpenes are toxic and/or antifeedant to the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. We show that the bark and ...

  9. Christmas Trees Offer Many Environmental Benefits — And You Can Put a Dollar Sign Next to Them

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/christmas-trees-offer-many-environmental-benefits-%E2%80%94-and-you-can-put-dollar-sign-next

    up." A blue spruce with a 2-inch-diameter trunk growing on a Christmas tree farm in, say, Doylestown in ... runoff and reduction of atmospheric carbon by 20 pounds. Meanwhile, a Scotch pine at that same location ... blue spruce planted in Columbus in front of a single-family home, for example, will provide $12 every ...

  10. OCAMM odds & ends

    https://ocamm.osu.edu/news/ocamm-odds-ends-27

    |  Recording  | Related factsheets:  Distribution of Liquid Manure Application   |  Calibrating ...

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