Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Centaurea solstitialis, the yellow star-thistle, is a species of thorny plant in the genus Centaurea, which is part of the family Asteraceae. A winter annual , it is native to the Mediterranean Basin region and invasive in many other places.
Yellow star thistle. Yellow Star Thistle is an aggressive species that has invaded millions of acres of rangelands in the western United States. ... Puncture Vine is a toxic plant that grows in ...
Several plants, including nightshade, become more toxic as they wilt and die, posing a danger to horses eating dried hay or plant matter blown into their pastures. [3] The risk of animals becoming ill during the fall is increased, as many plants slow their growth in preparation for winter, and equines begin to browse on the remaining plants.
Eustenopus villosus is a species of true weevil known as the yellow starthistle hairy weevil. It is used as an agent of biological pest control against the noxious weed yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis). The adult weevil is hairy and brown with white stripes. It is 4 to 6 millimeters long, not including its long snout.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday it will permit use of the weevil native to Europe and western Asia to control yellow starthistle, which is from the same areas.
Just across the road from where California’s fifth largest fire in recorded history ignited last week, sat a 50 acre patch of extremely dry invasive yellow-star thistle that local authorities ...
Puccinia jaceae var. solstitialis is a species of fungus in the Pucciniaceae family. It is a plant pathogen that causes rust.Native to Eurasia, it is the first fungal pathogen approved in the United States as a biological control agent to curb the growth of the invasive weed yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis).
Chaetorellia succinea is a species of tephritid fruit fly that was accidentally released in 1991 into the United States and had since become one of the major biological pest controls against the noxious weed yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis).