CARIBBEAN-AGRICULTURE: REGION MOVES TO TETHER THE MEALY BUG

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  September 8, 1995 ;     700+ words ......launched an all out assault on the pink mealy bug, which has already devastated several...reported the first instance of the pink mealy bug in the western hemisphere. The bug...measures proved insufficient to stop the mealy bug's spread. Barely two weeks after...

CARIBBEAN-AGRICULTURE: FARMERS WINNING THE BATTLE OF THE BUGS

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 20, 1996 ;     601 words ......launched an all-out assault on the pink mealy bug which has played havoc with agricultural...says two natural predators of the mealy bug brought into the region since February...the use of chemicals to reduce the mealy bug population. It also lent its support...

Bug makes meal of Punjab cotton, whither Bt magic?

The Hindustan Times;  September 2, 2007 ;     693 words ......to save their cotton crop from the mealy bug - are headed for major losses this...the Akalis took over in Punjab, the mealy bug - a kind of insect - has wreaked...stated Bachan Singh showing his 'mealy bug'-infested cotton crop in his fields...

PAU comes to farmers' rescue from bug.

Times of India (New Delhi, India);  July 4, 2007 ;     443 words ...Jul. 4--LUDHIANA -- An attack of mealy bug on cotton crop in Bathinda and Faridkot...conducted to counter the attack of mealy bug. He said university had been disseminating...added. On the nature of damage due to mealy bug, Dr NS Butter, head, department of...

Millennium bug corraled

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 29, 1999 ;     474 words ...Don't worry about the Y2K bug. I trapped it in my basement. And I won...anyone's computer. I first found the Y2K bug lurking around my computer in the cellar...called my office. I apparently startled the bug, because it made a wrong turn into a big...

MEALY BUGS MAKING MEAL OUT OF CACTUS.(GARDENING Q&A)(LIFE)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  November 27, 2004 ;     322 words ......Several species of this common insect (mealy bug) can be found feeding on cacti. Mealy...causes plant distortion. Because the mealy bug can't digest all the sugar in the...the pot, including the bottom, for mealy bug egg masses. Wipe these off. Avoid...

FILM REVIEW: 'A Bug's Life'

University Wire;  December 4, 1998 ;     700+ words ......U-WIRE) SEATTLE, Wash. -- John Lasseter's A Bug's Life is one of those rare films which...Pixar's own Toy Story). The world of A Bug's Life is so lush and full of life that...had an nearly identical plot and beat A Bug's Life to theaters by a few months. Unlike...

ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES: MEALY BUG PROBLEM.

Caribbean Update;  November 1, 1996 ;     144 words ......the presence of the dangerous Pink Mealy Bug here. St. Vincent & the Grenadines...by the trade suspension. The Pink Mealy Bug has destroyed crops in Grenada and...There is increasing evidence that the bug may also be in Jamaica. COPYRIGHT...

MEALY BUG INFESTATION.

Caribbean Update;  February 1, 1997 ;     137 words ......dollars in foreign exchange earnings, as a result of the mealy bug infestation, before measures are finally put in place to...past three months as a result of the presence of the pink mealy bug has cost the country close to EC$6 million. Similar losses...

BUG THREAT

Caribbean Update;  November 1, 1995 ;     123 words ......agriculture posed by the Pink (Hibiscus) Mealy Bug. It was discovered in Grenada in...Vincent & the Grenadines. The mealy bug is proving to be quite devastating...effort to prevent the spread of the bug. COPYRIGHT 1995 Caribbean UPDATE...

Cold knocks vineyard pest bugs

The Nelson Mail;  September 19, 2006 ;     199 words ......owner Gary Neale said he expected the mealy bug population to be knocked by the hard...had not yet been found in Nelson, mealy bug was present in some vineyards on...roll virus three, Mr Marshall said. Mealy bug was a "cryptic pest'' and difficult...

The bugs making a meal of pot plant.

Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  January 31, 1999 ;     470 words ......seem to be growing in numbers. The problem is certainly mealy bug, although it may just be woolly aphids. There is more of a cotton wool-like appearance with mealy bug and if you inspect the underside of the wool carefully...

Swatting the 2000 bug

The Press;  September 28, 1998 ;     671 words ......says it is not too late. The millennium bug in some computers, which does not allow...among others. He warns that the millennium bug could close electricity, water, and sewerage...reported to be well advanced in coping with the bug, they too may suffer. Said to be doing less...

`BUG'S' BIG BUZZ; DISNEY RELEASE FORECAST BY SOME AS SEASON GIANT.(News)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  November 12, 1998 ;     656 words ......Early indications have emerged that ``A Bug's Life'' will soar past rivals and hit a...solid for several months. Newsweek gave ``A Bug's Life'' a spot on this week's cover above a dour Newt Gingrich, declaring, `` `A Bug's Life' should thrive at the box office...

Lively 'Bug's Life' enchAnts

Jerusalem Post;  April 26, 1999 ;     700 words ......1999 This review comes a bit late in the run of A Bug's Life -since - I hope readers will forgive me - the...rather disparaging comparisons between Disney/Pixar's A Bug's Life and the other big bug movie of the season. (If memory serves, one New York...