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Green Manure Crops as Food Source: Impact on the Performance of the Migratory Beet Webworm, Loxostege sticticalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

open access: yesInsects, 2023
The application of green manure is crucial for achieving sustainable agriculture and animal husbandry, but pest management is often overlooked. Conducting a risk assessment for insect pests in green manure is essential.
Lin Ma   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Temporal variations in English Populations of a forest insect pest, the green spruce aphid (Elatobium abietinum), associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation and global warming [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Based on an exceptionally long modern ecological dataset (41 years), it has been possible to show that warm weather in England associated with a positive North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index causes the spring migration of the green spruce aphid ...
Angus R. Westgarth-Smith   +27 more
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Pesticide exposure affects flight dynamics and reduces flight endurance in bumblebees

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2019
The emergence of agricultural land use change creates a number of challenges that insect pollinators, such as eusocial bees, must overcome. Resultant fragmentation and loss of suitable foraging habitats, combined with pesticide exposure, may increase ...
Daniel Kenna   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flight behavior of the sycamore lace bug, Corythucha ciliata, in relation to temperature, age, and sex

open access: yesJournal of Integrative Agriculture, 2019
The flight capacity of different ages and sexes of the sycamore lace bug, Corythucha ciliata, was studied at different temperatures using a flight mill system.
Shao-hui LU   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of reproductive life‐history and dispersal traits during the range expansion of a biological control agent

open access: yesEvolutionary Applications, 2022
Evolutionary theory predicts that the process of range expansion will lead to differences in life‐history and dispersal traits between the core and edge of a population.
Eliza I. Clark   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A simple computerized Arduino-based control system for insect rotary flight mills

open access: yesJournal of Insect Science, 2023
Abstract Flight mills are widely used to investigate insect flight behavior. As technology advances, the means to build a computerized control system for a flight mill has become more accessible in terms of both price and availability of components.
Miles T Casey   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Dispersal capacity of Monochamus saltuarius on flight mills [PDF]

open access: yesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 2018
AbstractPine wilt disease (PWD) is caused by pine wood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner & Buhrer) Nickle, transmitted by Monochamus saltuarius (Gebler) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) to healthy Korean white pine, Pinus koraiensis Siebold & Zucc. (Pinaceae). It is a serious threat to forest ecosystems worldwide.
Hyuk Jun Kwon   +4 more
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Lines of Flight: Everyday Resistance along England’s Backbone [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The visual and the cultural impact of ‘social industry’ has made a permanent impression on the landscape and on individual minds, whether for ill or for good, particularly in the Peak and Pennines region of northern England.
Brown, S., Wood, M.
core   +3 more sources

Investigating the Applicability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Photogrammetry for the Estimation of the Volume of Stockpiles

open access: yesQuaestiones Geographicae, 2021
Accurately estimating the volume of earthworks is very important in mining engineering and construction. This estimation can be difficult because of the morphological condition of the stockpiles, hence, devising simpler, yet accurate methods of stockpile
Ajayi Oluibukun Gbenga, Ajulo John
doaj   +1 more source

Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Pretreated Miscanthus Biomass

open access: yesТехника и технология пищевых производств, 2022
Forests being mostly non-renewable, miscanthus seems to be a promising alternative energy resource. This study investigates the enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated miscanthus biomass. The research featured Miscanthus sinensis Strictus biomass. The methods
Olga B. Kalashnikova   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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