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Winter Activity for Crapemyrtle Bark Scale, an Urban Landscape Pest

HortScience, 2023
Scale insects are some of the most abundant and damaging pests of urban forests in North America. Despite their prevalence, scale insect emergence during the winter dormant season, which could contribute to their population growth and spread and thereby ...
Erika R. Wright , Kevin D. Chase , Caitlin Littlejohn , Amber Stiller , Samuel F. Ward   +4 more
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Proportion of Grassland at Landscape Scale Drives Natural Pest Control Services in Agricultural Landscapes [PDF]

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Managing regulating ecosystem services delivered by biodiversity in farmland is a way to maintain crop yields while reducing the use of agrochemicals. Because semi-natural habitats provide shelter and food for pest enemies, a higher proportion of semi-natural habitats in the landscape or their proximity to crops may enhance pest control in arable ...
Thomas Perrot, Thomas Perrot, Adrien Rusch, Camille Coux, Camille Coux, Sabrina Gaba, Sabrina Gaba, Sabrina Gaba, Vincent Bretagnolle, Vincent Bretagnolle   +9 more
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Landscape-Scale Wireless Technology for Vertebrate Pest Control [PDF]

Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, 2016
Author(s): Croft, Simon; Leckie, Campbell; Warburton, Bruce | Abstract: A unique wireless communications and sensor network has been developed by Encounter Solutions Ltd, New Zealand, with a specific aim of fundamentally changing the way pest control operations can be carried out.
Croft, Simon, Leckie, Campbell, Warburton, Bruce   +2 more
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Landscape-scale drivers of insect pest regulation in sugar beet [PDF]

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Recent policy shifts sparked by environmental and health concerns, insecticide resistance development, and limited new registrations have caused a dwindling availability of chemical insecticides. Sugar beet, a major cash crop in temperate agricultural systems, relied on now banned neonicotinoid insecticide seed coatings for pest control, creating a ...
Fabian A. Boetzl, Nika Jachowicz, Anne Lisbet Hansen, Ola Lundin   +3 more
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Climate Change Promotes the Large-Scale Population Growth of Grapholita molesta (Busck) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) within Peach Orchards in China

Agronomy, 2022
Cosmopolitan agricultural herbivorous pests are provided with a wide range of potential hosts. Therefore, they have high carrying capacity, and can cause extremely severe damage in agroecosystems.
Hongchen Li, Qiulian Peng, Su Wang, Fan Zhang, Xiaojun Guo, Quan Jiang, Ningxing Huang, Hu Li   +7 more
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Non-crop habitats concurrently drive crop colonization by the millet head miner and regulation by natural enemies

Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022
Non-crop habitats, depending on their composition, can enhance the abundance and diversity of natural enemies of crop pests, but also at the same time provide resources to pests, thereby reducing the effect on pest incidence and resulting yield losses ...
Ahmadou Sow, Valérie Soti, Ibrahima Thiaw, Thierry Brévault   +3 more
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Landscape composition and configuration have scale-dependent effects on agricultural pest suppression

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2020
Abstract Increasing landscape heterogeneity (composition and configuration) can enhance natural enemy populations and support pest suppression in agricultural landscapes. Using a network-based data mining approach, we examined independent gradients of landscape composition and configuration at six spatial scales that were associated with pest ...
Yajun Zhang, Nathan L. Haan, Douglas A. Landis   +2 more
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Surrounding landscape influences the abundance of insect predators in rice field

BMC Zoology, 2020
Background Natural enemy abundance in a crop plot depends on its prey presence and also influenced by habitats close to field. Landscape changes are also important factors driving pest and natural enemy population abundance in a specific crop field ...
M. P. Ali, M. M. M. Kabir, S. S. Haque, S. Afrin, N. Ahmed, Barry Pittendrigh, Xinghu Qin   +6 more
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Higher bee abundance, but not pest abundance, in landscapes with more agriculture on a late-flowering legume crop in tropical smallholder farms [PDF]

PeerJ, 2021
Background Landscape composition is known to affect both beneficial insect and pest communities on crop fields. Landscape composition therefore can impact ecosystem (dis)services provided by insects to crops. Though landscape effects on ecosystem service
Cassandra Vogel, Timothy L. Chunga, Xiaoxuan Sun, Katja Poveda, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter   +4 more
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Black Scale Saissetia oleae (Olivier, 1791) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)

EDIS, 2015
The black scale is an important pest of citrus and olive trees. Originally from South Africa, this scale is now distributed worldwide. In Florida, black scale is found on citrus, cultivated olive, avocado, and many popular landscape plants. It is likely
Morgan A. Byron, Jennifer L. Gillett-Kaufman, Sandra A. Allan   +2 more
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