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• Homes & Gardens

  5 methods to get rid of spiders in basements – tried and tested by pest control experts

  Keep spooky spiders away with these expert-approved prevention methods

• Wine Enthusiast

  Dark, Hardy and Mysterious, the Lenoir Grape Has a Disease-Resistant Superpower

  It doesn’t succumb to Pierce’s disease, phylloxera or powdery or downy mildew—all environmental threats in the warm, humid Southeast where most Lenoir plantings are found.

• Feedlot

  Cotton Crop Faring Better Than Past Two Drought Years

  The Texas cotton crop can only be described as a mixed bag – with harvest wrapping up in the southern parts to bolls just setting in the northernmost parts – and sometimes the mixture depends on the moisture.

• Serious Eats

  How to Get Rid of Ants in Your Kitchen, According to Entomologists

  You have to know your enemy—and accept that there’s no permanent solution.

• The San Diego Union-Tribune

  The one thing watermelon experts do to pick sweet ones

  It’s not a myth: You really do need to slap them and listen carefully

• Ag Daily

  RNA citrus greening treatment approaches commercialization

  Citrus greening, also called Huanglongbing, is a bacterial infection of citrus plants. It is one of the most serious citrus diseases in the world.

• CHRON.

  Feral hogs negatively impact Texas alligators, new study shows

  Experts said the findings are a serious concern for conservationists. 

• Archyde

  Eating small amounts of this vitamin is beneficial for health.. Study reveals

  While excessive vitamin intake can be harmful, in certain situations, consuming less may be advantageous.

• Advanced Biofuels USA

  Key Biofuel-Producing Microalga Believed to Be a Single Species Is Actually Three

  When a global pandemic forced previous graduate student Devon Boland, Ph.D., out of the lab and onto the computer, he found a world of difference hidden in the long-studied species of Botryoccocus braunii — and discovered that it isn’t one species at all, but three.

• Farms

  Computer-Based Model Could Mitigate Cattle Fever Tick Outbreaks

  Since the early 1900s, eradicating cattle fever ticks has challenged surveillance and quarantine programs designed to protect the U.S. and Texas cattle industry.

• CHRON.

  Scorpion activity is now at a peak in Texas

  The species most common and widespread in Texas loves to invade homes. 

• PHYS.org

  How are hurricanes named? Experts explain how naming conventions for major storms have evolved over the years

  The state of Texas is no stranger to hurricanes and damaging storms. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Disaster Assessment and Recovery, DAR, continues to assist Texans recovering from Hurricane Beryl amidst what is expected to be an above-average Atlantic hurricane season.

• Serious Eats

  I Asked 2 Experts How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies—Their Advice Made the Pests Buzz Off

  These tiny pests don’t have to stay forever.

• Texas Monthly

  It’s Scorpion Season. Here’s What to Do if You See One.

  The pain inflicted by a scorpion isn’t much worse than that from a bee or wasp sting—at least, not in the physical sense.

• Newsweek

  Tarantula Warning for Eight States: What to Know

  A horde of baseball-sized tarantulas may soon start roaming across several Southern states.

• Farms

  Texas A&M AgriLife study develops surveillance tools for pigs

  A team of researchers led by experts from the Department of Entomology in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are utilising emerging genetic technology to create a next-generation surveillance method to protect the US pork industry from African swine fever virus, ASFV, according to a recent article from Texas A&M’s AgriLife Today.

• Earth

  Why some people are ‘mosquito magnets’

  When the sun sets and you’re out enjoying the calm of twilight, do you often find yourself stuck in an unwanted chase with mosquitoes?

• Science Daily

  Reduction in folate intake linked to healthier aging in animal models

  Lowered dietary folate has the potential to enhance metabolic flexibility

• PHYS.org

  Are you a mosquito magnet? Science says you might be

  If you feel like you’re the victim of itchy mosquito bites more often than others, it may not be all in your head.

• Poultry Times

  TAMU: from moon ‘dust’ to moon ‘soil’

  A love for space exploration led Jessica Atkin, a Texas A&M University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences graduate student in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, to produce the first-ever moondust-grown chickpeas.