One day farmers might exchange pesticides for an industrial grade polymer that looks and acts like cotton candy as a major weapon against onion maggots, cabbage maggots, corn earworms and other ...

Gardening is a spiritual experience where many people find peace and comfort in the turning of the soil and growing of plants. Or, it is until you find something truly horrid hiding under the dirt, ...

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Ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), nicknamed 'cotton candy' by Michael Hoffman, keeps insects from attacking this broccoli plant. Credit: Baird/Cornell ITHACA, N.Y. -- The latest in insect control: "cotton ...