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Japanese beetles are a nasty pest that have plagued the Front Range in recent decades. And they have recently shown up on the Western Slope 鈥� a worrisome development for the region鈥檚 agriculture. We hear about the latest efforts to beat the beetle 鈥� and what you can do in your own garden 鈥� on today鈥檚 episode of In The NoCo.

Across the Western bumblebee's range, populations declined 57% from 1998 to 2020, according to a study published last month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

APHIS monitors grasshoppers in 17 western states, and when the agency deems there鈥檚 an outbreak - or is asked to intervene by stakeholders like the US Forest Service or adjacent land owners - it can apply a pesticide to kill the insects.

Across the Midwest, millions of acres of farmland have been damaged by dicamba, an herbicide that can harm crops not engineered to withstand it. There are so many cases, regulators can't keep up.

New evidence from Japan's Lake Shinji suggests that the widely used family of pesticides called neonicotinoids, already controversial for harming pollinators, could pose risks to fish as well.

Studies are revealing new, unintended threats that neonicotinoid pesticides pose to insects. The chemicals, widely used by farmers, are difficult to control because they persist in the environment.

On July 28, 2017, a central Iowa emergency dispatcher received a 911 call from a man in a corn field. 鈥淚 had workers that were detasseling,鈥� said the...

The discovery of potentially dangerous pesticide residue on marijuana has led to two product recalls in Colorado. The alerts have raised questions about鈥�