by Doug Mayo | Oct 25, 2013
Holly Ober, UF/IFAS Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Specialist Eleven different species of bats live in north Florida year-round. These bats are voracious feeders. During spring, females with young can eat nearly their entire body weight each night. Their food...
by Les Harrison | Oct 18, 2013
Turns out the Kudzu Bug, a recently discovered East Asian agronomic pest, and two invasive Asian thrips may have the potential to control another invasive pest from the Far East. All three insects appear to have a dietary preference for the invasive plant, kudzu....
by Doug Mayo | Sep 20, 2013
The University of Florida IFAS Extension offers a database of fact sheets available for free download on the Internet called EDIS (Electronic Data Information Source) that has many publications of interest to farmers and ranchers in Northwest Florida....
by Doug Mayo | Sep 13, 2013
With all of the rain Florida has received the last two months, the mosquito population has increased dramatically. Mosquitoes are the vector or carrier for viruses that can be transmitted from wild birds to humans and horses. Through August there have not been any...
by Libbie Johnson | Sep 13, 2013
September generally signals the start of peanut and cotton harvests, but in many counties of northwest Florida late planted soybeans still need continued scouting for disease, insect, and weed pests. Unfortunately, one producer here in the western Florida panhandle...
by Les Harrison | Aug 16, 2013
Yellowstriped armyworms, Spodoptera ornithogalli, have made an appearance in Wakulla County, Florida. While common in the eastern United States, and even as far west as the Rocky Mountains, as a pest its occurrence is limited primarily to the southeastern states. The...
