LAIKIPIA, Kenya, Sept 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Armed with rakes, hoes and machetes, a group of ranchers hacked at the spiky cactus plants sprouting all over their land, chopping them into ...

With proper care, a Christmas cactus can live for up to a century but even these hardy plants aren’t without their share of pests. Luckily bugs in Christmas cactus are a rarity and generally not ...

Silver linings can be hard to come by, but for the leaf-footed cactus bug – who appear to grow larger testes in response to losing their sparring weapons – life could certainly be worse. Leaf-footed ...

Graduate students at Florida International University are using $60,000 in federal "stimulus" funds to study the explosion of lawsuits in Mexico and Peru -- in the 1600s. Also, at Florida Atlantic ...

An insect, which will be unleashed in WA's northern Goldfields in a bid to kill off an invasive cactus, has arrived in Kalgoorlie and begun a breeding program. A biosecurity group has imported the ...

Tiny cactus-sucking insects have been let loose on an invasive weed infestation in far west New South Wales. It is because the cochineal (dactylopius tomentosus), a native of Mexico, loves to gorge on ...

An insect that feeds on a destructive cactus in western Queensland is being released with hopes it can help control the invasive weed. Tiny sap-sucking bugs are being unleashed in the outback battle ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from SA News. Followed categories will be added to My News. Friends of Onkaparinga Park have enlisted the support of rock climbers and four-wheel-drive enthusiasts in ...

Men on the communally-managed Makurian Group Ranch in Kenya's Rift Valley load a prickly pear cactus they have chopped down into put in a wheelbarrow in Laikipia County, Kenya, July 31, 2019. Thomson ...

LAIKIPIA, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Armed with rakes, hoes and machetes, a group of ranchers hacked at the spiky cactus plants sprouting all over their land, chopping them into pieces and ...

Armed with rakes, hoes and machetes, a group of ranchers hacked at the spiky cactus plants sprouting all over their land, chopping them into pieces and carting them off in wheelbarrows. In many parts ...