Category: Invasive Species

Factsheet: Exotic Invasives with Yellow Flowers Easy to Spot Now!

by Doug Caldwell "Dr. Dougbug"
December 6, 2008

Naples Daily News Dec. 6, 2008 Above: The earleaf acacia (Acacia auriculiformis) grows to 40 feet tall and has elongate leaves with parallel veins. Photo: Stephen Brown. UF/IFAS Lee Co. Extension. Right, above: ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Invasive Species, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Acacia Auriculiformis, Christmas Senna, Collier County, Doug Caldwell, Earleaf Acacia, Exotic Pest Plant, Glaucous Cassia, S. Surattensis, Stephen Brown

UF Doctoral Student Uses High-Tech Method to Solve Greece’s Tough Mosquito Problem

by Patricia Standeford
October 27, 2008

By: Mickie Anderson - (352) 273-3566 Sources: Alex Chaskopoulou - andahask@ufl.edu, (352) 392-2326 Phil Koehler - pgk@ufl.edu, (352) 392-2484 View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A University of Florida doctoral student from Greece is helping ... READ MORE

Category: Invasive Species, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS
Tags: Alex Chaskopoulou, Entomology And Nematology, Phil Koehler

UF Entomologists Warn Floridians New Roaches May Be on the Way

by Patricia Standeford
October 8, 2008

By: Mickie Anderson - (352) 273-3566 Sources: Phil Koehler - pgk@ufl.edu, (352) 392-2484 Roberto Pereira - rpereira@ufl.edu, (352) 392-1901 View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- As if Floridians aren't bugged enough by roaches, a growing interest ... READ MORE

Category: Invasive Species, Pests & Disease
Tags: Entomology And Nematology, Phil Koehler, Roaches, Roberto Pereira

Grants to Help UF Experts Build Carbon Sciences and Climate-Response Programs for Ag, Natural Resources Industries

by BLOGS.IFAS
September 16, 2008

By: Tom Nordlie - (352) 273-3567 Sources: Jim Jones - jimj@ufl.edu, (352) 392-1864 x289 Tim Martin - tamartin@ufl.edu, (352) 846-0866 Mark McLellan - mrm1@ufl.edu, (352) 392-1784 View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Two new grants will enable ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Invasive Species, UF/IFAS Research, Work & Life
Tags: Climate Change, Jim Jones, Mark McLellan, Tim Martin

Research Shows Contraception Could Control Problem Parakeets

by BLOGS.IFAS
July 8, 2008

By: Mickie Anderson - (352) 273-3566 Sources: Michael Avery - michael.l.avery@aphis.usda.gov, (352) 375-2229 Jim Lindsay - jim.lindsay@fpl.com, (561) 691-7032 View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- When monk parakeets began to infiltrate the ... READ MORE

Category: Invasive Species
Tags: Jim Lindsay, Michael Avery, Parakeets

Aggressive Weed Becoming a Menace Worse Than Kudzu, UF Researcher Says

by BLOGS.IFAS
July 5, 2008

By: Mickie Anderson - (352) 392-0400 Source(s): Shibu Jose - sjose@ufl.edu, (352) 846-0872 Raghavan Charudattan - rcharu@ufl.edu, (352) 392-7240 x354 GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- And you thought kudzu was bad. A weed called cogongrass is rapidly ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Invasive Species
Tags: Cogongrass, Raghavan Charudattan, Shibu Jose

Florida Python Invasion: Expanded and Still Growing, UF Researcher Says

by BLOGS.IFAS
May 15, 2008

By: Mickie Anderson (352) 273-3566 Source: Frank Mazzotti, fjma@ufl.edu, (954) 577-6338 GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The invasion of gigantic Burmese pythons in South Florida appears to be rapidly expanding, according to a new report from a University ... READ MORE

Category: Invasive Species
Tags: Frank Mazzotti, Pythons

UF Researchers Seek Bugs to Battle Aquatic Weed Plaguing Central, South Florida

by BLOGS.IFAS
April 21, 2008

By: Tom Nordlie - (352) 273-3567 Sources: Jim Cuda - jcuda@ufl.edu, (352) 392-1901, x126 Abhishek Mukherjee - abhi06@ufl.edu, (352) 392-3616 Marcos De Jesus - marcos.dejesus@tpwd.state.tx.us, (512) 353-0072 View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Invasive Species, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Abhishek Mukherjee, Hydrilla, Hygrophila, Jim Cuda, Marcos De Jesus

UF Researchers Identify Gene That Helps Chinese Fern Tolerate Arsenic

by BLOGS.IFAS
January 9, 2008

View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Arsenic is notorious for its toxic effects on people, but it can be just as dangerous to plants - most of them, anyway. One exception is the Chinese brake fern, a nondescript-looking bracken that can soak ... READ MORE

Category: Invasive Species, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Andrew Meharg, Bala Rathinasabapathi

Space Station Experiment to Test Bacteria Hitchhiking to the Red Planet

by BLOGS.IFAS
December 5, 2007

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- If a trip to Mars seems like it would be a tough journey, imagine what it would be like on the outside of the spaceship. Earth bacteria can be extraordinarily tough—rugged enough, in fact, to survive on the outside of ... READ MORE

Category: Invasive Species, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: NASA, Wayne Nicholson

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