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Biological pest control in beetle agriculture

Trends in Microbiology, 2009
Bark beetles are among the most destructive tree pests on the planet. Their symbiosis with fungi has consequently been studied extensively for more than a century. A recent study has identified actinomycete bacteria that are associated with the southern pine beetle and produce specific antibiotics against an antagonist of the beetles' mutualistic ...
Aanen, D.K., Slippers, B., Wingfield, M.J.   +2 more
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The economic impacts of ecosystem disruptions: Costs from substituting biological pest control

Science
Biodiversity loss is accelerating, yet we know little about how these ecosystem disruptions affect human well-being. Ecologists have documented both the importance of bats as natural predators of insects as well as their population declines after the ...
E. Frank
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Biological Control of Marine Pests

Ecology, 1996
Biological control, as used in terrestrial systems, may hold promise for use against exotic marine species. We first review some marine pests, displaying their diversity, the damage they cause, and possible controls. We then contrast approaches for marine and terrestrial pest control, providing guidelines for adapting terrestrial controls to the marine
Armand M. Kuris, Kevin D. Lafferty
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Biological pest control by investing crops in pests

Population Ecology, 2012
AbstractWe propose a biological pest control system that invests part of a crop in feeding a pest in a cage. The fed pest maintains a predator that attacks the pest in the target area (i.e., the area for storing or growing crops). The fed pest cannot leave the cage nor the target pest cannot enter the cage. The predator, however, can freely attack both
Natsuko I. Kondo, Hiroshi C. Ito
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Biological Control of Insect Pests

2013
Natural enemies of insect pests play a key role in reducing the levels of pest populations below those causing economic injury. Both natural and applied biological control tactics can be important in successful management of pest populations. Biological control has the advantage of being self-perpetuating (once established), and it usually does not ...
Ajeet Kumar, Subho Mozumdar, Arnab De, Rituparna Bose   +3 more
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Biological Control of Tea Pests

2001
Tea, Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze is an economically important crop cultivated for leaf covering an area of 42.2 million ha in India. Tea plantation as monoculture is a permanent ecosystem which provides habitat continuity for 1031 species of arthropods and 82 species of nematodes as reported from different parts of the world (Chen and Chen, 1989).
K. C. Puzari, Lakshmi Kanta Hazarika, Seema Wahab   +2 more
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Economics of biological control of pests

American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, 1988
Biological pest control techniques usually have identifiable costs and constraints that they must overcome before they will be adopted by farmers. Many biological control agents are developed in the public sector and need economic assessments at an early stage.
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Biological control of pests.

2021
Abstract This chapter focuses on the benefits of using biological control in cut flower production through augmentative biological control using invertebrate and microbial organisms (natural enemies and biopesticides) applied seasonally or prophylactically.
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Biological and integrated pest control in floriculture.

2013
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Poncet, Christine, Bout, Alexandre, Parolin, Pia, Bresch, Cécile, Fatnassi, Hicham, Mailleret, Ludovic   +5 more
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Biological control in the management of pests

Agro-Ecosystems, 1975
Abstract In this paper the author reviews the broad general picture of developments in biological control in relation to the increasing opportunities presented for its employment in developing programmes of integrated pest control worldwide. Included are not only the classical examples of biological control of insects and mites and of weeds but such ...
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