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Response of the Coccinellidae Community within Sustainable Vineyards to the Surrounding Landscape
Agronomy, 2022 The family Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) includes important predatory natural enemies in agricultural crops. To survive, this group uses different occurring resources across the landscape; therefore, the landscape can influence the Coccinellidae community ...
Luísa Taranto +4 more
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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2012 The application of micro-CT scanning techniques on a small sample of “Seven-spot ladybirds” Coccinella septempunctata, collected in December 2009, identified an accumulation of material with a very high, relative X-ray attenuation value in the malpighian
Duncan Bell +5 more
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Toxins, 2017 Propylea japonica (Thunberg) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) are prevalent predators and pollen feeders in East Asian maize fields. They are therefore indirectly (via prey) and directly (via pollen) exposed to Cry proteins within Bt-transgenic maize fields ...
Yonghui Li +8 more
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Folia Horticulturae, 2011 During the sampling period, 243 syrphid larvae belonging to seven species were collected from M. cerasi colonies on P. avium. Episyrphus balteatus Deg. and Epistrophe eligans (Harr.) were the most numerous species amongst the materials gathered, followed
Wojciechowicz-Żytko Elżbieta
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Agronomy, 2022 The importance of plant richness to enhance the presence, biodiversity and efficiency of natural enemies in agricultural systems has largely been studied and demonstrated these last decades.
Coline C. Jaworski +8 more
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The role of nectariferous plants in the attraction of coccinellids (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Карантин і захист рослин, 2020 Goal. To evaluate the role of nectarines in attracting coccinellid in the agrocenosis of spring wheat. Methods. Field experience on the effect of nectarines to attract coccinellid; accounting ladybirds on the plot of nectarines and sowing of spring ...
Ya. Medvid
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Agronomy, 2022 The aim of this study was to determine the effects of water extracts of tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus L.) on the feeding intensity, mortality, and weight gain of selected pests, i.e., adult pea leaf weevils (Sitona lineatus L.), nymphs, wingless ...
Janina Gospodarek +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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Toxins, 2018 The ladybird Propylea japonica, adults of the green lacewing Chrysoperla nipponensis and the honey bee Apis mellifera are common pollen feeders in many crop systems.
Xiaowei Xie +7 more
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Area‐restricted search under realistic constraints
Oikos, EarlyView.Abstract Area‐restricted search (ARS) is one of the most influential and widely used concepts in foraging theory, capturing a simple rule by which animals intensify local search following a resource encounter. Because ARS performs well in many spatially structured environments, it serves as a basic model for interpreting movement patterns across taxa ...
Inon Scharf, Arik Dorfman
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