LONDON - Scientists in Britain say they have developed a way of genetically modifying and controlling an invasive species of moth that causes serious pest damage to cabbages, kale, canola and other ...

Climate change has already increased the overwintering range of a destructive pest, increasing its resistance to insecticides, and the situation is projected to get worse in the coming decades, new ...

Genetically modified diamondback moths designed to wipe out wild pest populations were released in fields for the first time in New York state. Diamondback moths are migratory pests found in the ...

In this undated photo provided by Dan Olmstead in May 2017, diamondback moths mate on a cabbage leaf. Researchers in a New York cabbage patch are planning the first release on American soil of insects ...

Diamondback moth larvae are causing severe damage to some eastern Washington spring canola fields, an extension educator says. “Not everybody has it, but the few growers that have called in have it ...

Two rows of collard greens (Brassica oleracea var. acephala L.) were planted between two cabbage fields in Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida in spring 1995. More larvae of the diamondback moth (DBM), ...

A research team from the Nanjing Agricultural University in Nanjing, China, and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, showed that isothiocyanates produced by cruciferous ...

Not only are diamondback moths quite harmful to brassica-genus crops such as cabbage, broccoli and canola, but they're also very resistant to insecticides. Help may be on the way, though, in the form ...

A new farm aid package is expected next week to help farmers facing export losses and low commodity prices. We sat down with Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden, who says “a wide variety of ...

Earlier this spring, Anthony Shelton found himself planting a cabbage patch with members of his lab in upstate New York. “We’re A to Z here,” says Shelton, who is an entomologist at Cornell University ...

Scientists have released male moths genetically engineered with a destruct gene into the wild to wipe out females. They say is the first open-field release of a self-limiting diamondback moth. The ...

Scientists have released a "self-limiting," genetically engineered moth in hopes of curbing crop damage. The diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) can absolutely wreck brassicas—a plant genus that ...