Pests

Cherry Crops Kept Safe from Diseases Thanks to Tiny Kestrel Falcons in Michigan

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Cherry Crops Kept Safe from Diseases Thanks to Tiny Kestrel Falcons in Michigan

The American kestrel – credit, Charles J. Sharp via Sharp Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0 This is the American kestrel; a sight to behold. Sporting a back that’s emblazoned with pheasant rust and bars of black, supporting wings of battleship grey tipped with white dots like a moth’s, and streaks of menacing black down its eyes, … Read more

Birds Start to Show Signs of Recovery After Bee-Harming Pesticide Ban in the EU

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Birds Start to Show Signs of Recovery After Bee-Harming Pesticide Ban in the EU

A chaffinch, one of the birds that recovered in the study – credit, 4028mdk09 CC 3.0. The first large-scale study to investigate the impact on bird populations from the 2018 European Union ban on a universal insecticide has determined that birds have recovered as much as 3% since 2018. Given that 57 species of birds … Read more