House Agriculture Committee examines invasives
At a recent House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture hearing, witnesses offered testimony on invasive species like nutria ...
feral swine
Researchers home in on swine habits to fight the invasion
Tracking the destructive habits of feral swine in different parts of North America is giving researchers new ideas about how to stop the invasive animals. “Pigs ...
Hunters back restrictions on moving feral swine
The transport and release of live feral swine to new areas represents one of the biggest threats to feral swine (Sus scrofa) management. Only roughly half of all ...
USDA announces grants for feral swine control
In an effort to address feral swine (Sus scrofa) control and eradication, the Agriculture Department’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and Animal and Plant ...
Coyotes are eating raccoons’ rabies vaccination bait
Coyotes (Canis latrans) and feral swine (Sus scrofa) have been unintentionally vaccinated by stealing bait intended to inoculate raccoons (Procyon lotor) from ...
Aerial control efforts underway as swine damage levees
The impact of the winter’s weather on feral swine control has varied, but it also provides a reminder of another benefit to that effort. Mississippi and Louisiana ...
Farm Bill funds conservation and invasive species control
The recent passage of the 2018 Farm Bill creates the largest single source of federal funding for private land conservation. The bulk of funding in the five-year, ...
Company withdraws request to register Kaput feral hog bait in Texas
The company Scimetrics has withdrawn its request for registration in the state of Texas of the warfarin-based pesticide, Kaput, for its use in the control of feral ...
Plucking hairs: New feral swine genetic archive
Tucked away in the National Wildlife Research Center’s (NWRC) genetics laboratory, biologist Dr. Tim Smyser opens a box from USDA Wildlife Services field ...
Wildlife Services Develops a New Toxin for Feral Swine
Feral swine are one of the most difficult invasive species to eradicate in North America. The pigs (Sus scrofa), first introduced from Europe, are intelligent ...