As a trained entomologist, I learned a lot of fancy names for common ordinary insects. We studied insects' order, family and species name. Most people just call these “bugs.” For example, we learned ...

An especially cold winter is showing its effects around some southern Minnesota shallow lakes and ponds with dead or dying fish. Although this can be discouraging to see, in most cases it is the ...

Spicer fisheries staff is testing lakes to determine the extent of winter kill; there have been reports of extensive winter kill to Point Lake, and partial winter kill to Swenson, Elizabeth and Ella ...

WEST FARGO – Winterkill of fish in lakes, reservoirs, ponds and sloughs is nothing new in North Dakota. In any given year, there’s a potential for winterkill. Just like for pheasants and deer in North ...

The 12th green at International Club of Myrtle Beach in Murrells Inlet during the replacement of greens with Sunday ultradwarf Bermudagrass this summer. Alan Blondin ablondin@thesunnews.com ...

It wasn't long ago - the mid-1990s - when North Dakota was pulling out of a drought and parched wetlands were recharged beyond what anyone could have reasonably predicted. At the same time, many large ...

Winterkill is a catch-all term describing winter injury to turfgrass that occurs through a variety of mechanisms such as ice suffocation, crown hydration, low-temperature injury and desiccation.

Every year in February, North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries biologists check lakes for low dissolved oxygen levels and potential winterkill. While deep snow and a long winter resulted in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may soon see dead fish and other aquatic animals in Michigan’s lakes and streams as spring thaw begins, but state officials ...

Frigid temperatures and a lack of moisture led to early problems for wheat farmers in Kansas and Oklahoma, but Colorado producers have not seen enough evidence to worry as much as their neighbors.

IN PARTICULAR. BILL QUANECIA BILL. THANK YOU. WE ARE HEARING YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT WINTER KILL THE DISEASE THAT CAN TAKE A TOLL ON GRASS. DRY CONDITIONS THIS FALL, COMBINED WITH RECENT SNOW IS EXPECTED ...

USDA’s Foreign Ag Service (FAS) says freezing temps in Europe may have damaged wheat and rapeseed crops given the lack of a protective snowcover. Wheat and rapeseed in western Poland and eastern ...