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Wood ants as biological control of the forest pest beetles Ips spp.
Scientific Reports, 2021 Climate change is one of the major threats to biodiversity, but its impact varies among the species. Bark beetles (Ips spp.), as well as other wood-boring pests of European forests, show escalating numbers in response to the changes driven by climate ...
G. Trigos-Peral +5 more
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Biological control of the chestnut gall wasp with \emph{T. sinensis}: a mathematical model
, 2015 The Asian chestnut gall wasp \emph{Dryocosmus kuriphilus}, native of China, has become a pest when it appeared in Japan, Korea, and the United States. In Europe it was first found in Italy, in 2002.
Alma, Alberto +4 more
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Parasitoid complex of fall armyworm, spodoptera frugiperda, in Ghana and Benin [PDF]
, 2020 Open Access Journal; Published online: 21 Jan 2020The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, a moth originating from the American continent, has recently invaded most African countries, where it is seriously threatening food security as a pest of cereals.
Agboyi, L.K. +11 more
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Journal of Plant Protection Research, 2015 The pinewood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is the causal agent of pine wilt disease (PWD). This nematode is considered to be an indigenous to North America and was introduced to Japan in the late 19th century.
Filipiak Anna
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Organic farming at local and landscape scales fosters biological pest control in vineyards.
Ecological Applications, 2018 While organic farming practices, which are often promoted as models of ecological intensification, generally enhance biodiversity, their effects on the delivery of ecosystem services, such as biological pest control, are still unknown.
L. Muneret +3 more
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Organizmy pożyteczne w strategiach biologicznego zwalczania – grzyby owadobójcze
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2010 Fungal entomopathogens are widespread in nature and contribute to the natural regulation of insects. They can be exploited for pest management as biological control agents of pests in attempts to improve the sustainability of crop protection.
Anna Augustyniuk-Kram
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Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2021 Pest control based on an economic threshold (ET) can effectively prevent excessive pest control measures such as pesticide abuse and overharvesting. The instinctive dispersal of pest populations in biological network patches for better survival poses ...
Yi Yang +3 more
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Sustainability, 2019 Non-crop vegetation around farmland can be valuable habitats for enhancing ecosystem services but little is known of the importance of field margins in supporting natural enemies of insect pests in tropical agriculture.
P. Mkenda +6 more
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Insect Colonization and Mass Production. Edited by Carroll N. Smith. New York and London: Academic Press, 1966. xxii, 618pp. $27.00. [PDF]
, 2017 Excerpt: The mass production of insects appears to have started with the requirements of the rod-and-line fisherman for bait. For many years, using crude but effective methods, an individual could earn a living rearing millions of blowflies a week to ...
Gardiner, Brian O.C
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