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Weather patterns favor late-season soybean pests
2013-09-04 06:00:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
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Crop-damaging pests spreading due to climate change; faster than their predators
2013-09-02 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GlobalPost: Pests that eat and damage crops are spreading both further north and south due to climate change, according to a new study. Researchers in Britain say that beetles, bacteria, funghi, worms, moths and other pests are moving at a rate of 16 miles per decade - that's faster than theoretical predictions in 2011 that found similar results. Both global warming and human transport are helping them spread, say scientists. The study looked at over 600 pests around the world and found that they were moving...
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Pests shift poleward as planet warms
2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Crop-damaging pests are moving towards the poles at a rate of more than 25 km (16 miles) a decade, aided by global warming and human transport, posing a potential threat to world food security, a study showed on Sunday. The spread of beetles, moths, bacteria, worms, funghi and other pests in a warming world may be quicker than for many types of wild animals and plants, perhaps because people are accidentally moving them with harvests, it said. Scientists based in Britain studied more than 600 types...
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Crop pests head polewards to flee heat
2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: A fungus is heading your way. The caterpillars are on the march. So are viruses and any number of insects and nematode worms, and since 1960 they have been shifting north and south at an average speed of 3 kilometres a year as the world warms, according to researchers at Exeter University in the UK. Sandra Gurr and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they looked at more than 26,000 observations of 612 well-known crop pests and had access to observations made much earlier, including...
Crop pests advancing with global warming
2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Crop pests and diseases are moving towards the poles at about the same speed as warmer temperatures. The finding suggests that climate change is driving their relocation, and raises major concerns about food security. Climate change is expected to cause changes in the distributions of species around the world, with an overall shift away from the equator and towards the poles. Ecologists have already documented such a shift in many wild species, including some birds and insects The changing climate...
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