Anyone who has ever tried to grow raspberries can attest to how messy, disorderly and invasive a raspberry patch can be. Raspberries are called “brambles” for a reason; without constant manicuring, ...

Spotted wing drosophila, a pest native to Southeast Asia, was detected on raspberry fruits by a local gardener in Brown County. More than 45 states including Wisconsin have reported the presence of ...

Biologists have long assumed that alien plant species pose less of a threat in resource-poor environments because they are less able to compete with indigenous plants, which have adapted to their ...

A new research study published in the journal Invasive Plant Science and Management tackles an important, unresolved question in the biology of invasive plants. Which is most important to the ...

One of the most serious and least understood threats to the world's ecosystems is the problem of invasive species-exotic plants, animals and other organisms that are brought into habitats and ...