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Daylight-saving time bill moves to Senate
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THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION
Rep. Donald Lehe, R-Brookston, discusses voting for a bill mandating daylight-saving time at the Statehouse in Indianapolis. The House approved the bill 51-47 late in the afternoon.(PHOTO) (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
A bill that would get Indianapolis to set its clocks back saw the light of day, after a local lawmaker switched his vote to allow the House to pass daylight saving time.
The House passed daylight-saving time bill by a 51-to-47 vote. It had been the second attempt for House Republicans to pass the bill Monday. Speaker of ...
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Wild-bean protein wipes out weevils.
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...protein found in some wild beans but absent from common...against an important bean pest, new research...beetles called bean weevils. In contrast, the...arcelin is highly toxic to bean weevil larvae. The tiny weevils, members of the family...usually lay their eggs in ...
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Bean weevils get a kick out of mates.(violent mating ritual)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...description of the domestic life of the bean weevil, say British researchers. These...that a female will mate with any weevil after she has mated him, say Helen...longer and caused more injury. Bean weevils, conclude the researchers, represent...
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Agriculture: Shaking Beans to Foil Weevils
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...will simply shake their beans. Beans are a crucial source...wily and industrious bean weevil. In its half-millimeter...Nature, it takes the weevils "24 to 48 hours of nearly...surface - such as another bean or the side of a container...effect by jostling the beans once in a ...
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Bean Gene Wards Off Weevils
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...making the bean resistant to the weevils that often destroy much of...potential usefulness. The bean gene carries the genetic code...tests, not to rats fed the beans cooked. Thomas C. Osborn...mechanism by which the wild beans protect their seeds from destruction...produced a variety of ...
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Australia Develops Weevil-Resistant Peas
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; ...99.5 percent resistant to weevil attack, no insecticide required...found in the common kidney bean which has a natural resistance to those seed-eating weevils. "This gene produces a protein...digestion of seed contents by weevil larvae, so they don't grow and develop into adults." "Weevils ...
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Variation among accessions of Pisum fulvum for resistance to pea weevil. (Plant Genetic Resources).
Magazine article from: Crop Science
; ...respond to the presence of pea weevil eggs on pods by forming callus...responsible for a lower rate of weevil infested seed (62.2...resistance to Callosobruchus weevils (Shade et al., 1994) and...amylase inhibitor in seeds of bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L...amylase and thus prevents weevil ...
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FIXIT; Strawberry root weevils look like large ticks.(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...re seeing strawberry root weevils. They look like ticks, are...short snout. Strawberry root weevils enter homes starting in July...two months. Once inside, weevils often are found on ceilings...curled up and look a bit like beans in a garden. The leaves used...
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See no weevil.(News)
Newspaper article from: Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...most likely to be the vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus). If vine weevil invade your pots, eating their...epimedium and bergenia. Adult weevils chomp away, leaving irregular...torchlight, picking off the weevil. Smear Vaseline around the...fruit ripens. Earth up French beans to the bottom ...
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TAOS COUNTY CROPS RECOVERING FROM EARLY FROST, ALFALFA WEEVIL.(News)
Newspaper article from: Taos News (Taos, NM)
; ...time harvest. Additional troubles this spring with the alfalfa weevil were able to be mitigated, he said. "Most of that was controlled...affected a few of her crops, including tomatoes and green beans, but shouldn't hurt them in the long run. "It wasn't...
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Beans bring a second success for top growers
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post
; ...Oakenshaw, near Wakefield. The beans are sown in February-March...sprayed twice against pea and bean weevil followed by a fungicide spay...of September. This year the beans yielded two tonnes per acre...when the couple won the edible bean championship in the competition...
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