This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Good morning, Joe Torre. It is a crazy age we live in, with banks ...

They're invasives, crowding native plants out of over 700,000 acres of the Florida landscape. Some pretty out-there remedies for getting rid of them (including bugs and goats) are being tried. Who ...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- Scientists with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences released insects known as Pseudophilothrips ichini, or thrips, into Pasco Palms Preserve ...

FORT PIERCE — Biologists want your help in the fight against one of Florida's most notorious invasive species. For decades, the Brazilian peppertree has swept throughout Central and South Florida, ...

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 5 (UPI) --A tiny bug from South America could help landowners in Florida and other states start winning a decades-long, multimillion-dollar war against invasive Brazilian pepper ...

INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH — After flying combat missions over Europe during World War II, John Baker spent a quarter century engaged in hand-to-limb combat against beachside Brazilian pepper trees between ...

Port Aransas (KIII News) — An effort to control the invasive tree that is common in this area is underway. On Monday a group of volunteers working under the Texas Gulf Region Cooperative weed ...

Q: I have just read an article about the Brazilian pepper tree and wanted to know if it is illegal to have one in my garden. My neighbor has been complaining about it and wanted to know if I am ...

A thousand teeny troops fanned out Tuesday. Their mission: Take down an invading green horde. At the deployment, scientists opened 100 vials, each containing 10 lab-raised bugs called thrips, freeing ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Brazilian pepper tree, an invasive plant in the southern United States, is showing great potential in the fight ...