Dust mites. You can’t see them, but they’re everywhere — your bedding, your couch cushions, your rugs and, yes, your favorite recliner. These tiny, eight-legged creatures are like the worst kind of ...

Figure 2. A map of the Panhandle region marked with areas of hail occurrences (black bars) according to hail reports submitted to the Storm Prediction Center’s storm report database between June 25 ...

Earlier this summer, many areas in the Panhandle experienced severe hailstorms in June and July before wheat harvest. It is highly likely that some of these hailstorms have created high-risk ...

The classic dark, waxy discharge is a hallmark sign of ear mites. Severe itching is often caused by an allergic reaction (hypersensitivity), not just the mites themselves. Symptom severity does not ...

UC Davis scientists have developed wheat plants that can stimulate the production of their own fertilizer. (Getty) Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have developed wheat plants that ...

Syria needs to import 53% more wheat in 2025/26 than in 2024/25 No major wheat deals announced by new Syrian government yet Wheat is Syria's top crop supporting a bread-subsidy programme Syria ...

Deep learning-based intelligent recognition algorithms are increasingly recognized for their potential to address the labor-intensive challenge of manual pest detection. However, their deployment on ...

Feeling itchy? You may have the latest brood of cicadas to blame. The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable ...

The idea of tiny bugs living in your eyelashes might sound like something out of a horror movie, but their reality is far less alarming. Microscopic mites are incredibly common and, for the most part, ...

This article is the first in a multi-week series on wheat streak mosaic complex management to address the 2025 outbreak by Kelsey Andersen Onofre, K-State Extension Wheat Pathologist. Wheat streak ...

When you think of lowering your grocery bill with homegrown food, wheat probably isn’t the first thing that pops into your mind. Tomatoes, lettuce, and perhaps a flock of backyard chickens often make ...

Wheat streak mosaic in a field in Rice County, Kansas. (Photo courtesy U.S. Wheat Associates) An extension forage and wheat specialist says farmers should monitor fields after harvest to help prevent ...