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Researchers create air samplers that could help develop pest management practices

    Above, Alejandra Caceres, left, and Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz deploy the samplers in the tree canopy. (Photo courtesy of Ksenia Onufrieva) Top, Researchers are deploying samplers to field sites. From left, Ksenia Onufrieva, Andrea Hickman and Alejandra Caceres are part of the team. (Photo courtesy Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz)BLACKSBURG, Va. — Understanding the intricacies of insect behavior and communication can help understand evolutionary […]

Knezick touts value of native pollinator plants

   WEST WINDSOR, N.J. — Farmers welcome the chance to lower input costs and according to a nurseryman, one way they can do this is by setting up native pollinator plant installations on or near their growing fields. Tom Knezick of Pinelands Nursery and Supply in Columbus, northern Burlington County, spoke at the November New Jersey Farm Bureau meeting about the […]

Brick by brick (Green Marketing)


   “You know, the only way I know how to build a brick wall is by one brick at a time. And I’ve been laying bricks since 1986. When I started laying bricks in 1986, I had no idea this was the wall I was building. But you keep laying bricks and you see what is going on in the outside […]

Bamboo and miscanthus (Horticultural IPM)



   (Editor’s note: Chelsey MacBride-Gill is the farm manager for Falcon Ridge Farm and Stanton Gill is the Regional Specialist in IPM and Entomology, CMREC, University of Maryland Extension and Professor with Montgomery College Landscape Technology Program E-mail insect or plant questions to dfplantquestions@gmail.com.) Bamboo can be grown for many uses including building materials, the fibers processed into cloth, and the […]


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