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Background The successful rearing of predators or parasitoids is one of the most important elements in biological control programs. The dried fruit mite, Carpoglyphus lactis (L.), can be used as an alternative prey for the phytoseiid predatory mite ...
Phyu Phyu San +3 more
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Genus Pygostolus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) new to Korea
The genus Pygostolus Haliday of the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with a newly recorded species, Pygostolus falcatus (Ness), is reported for the first time from Korea. Diagnosis and a photograph of the genus and species are provided.
Hye-Rin Lee +3 more
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Variation in herbivory-induced volatiles among cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) varieties has consequences for the attraction of carnivorous natural enemies [PDF]
In response to herbivory by arthropods, plants emit herbivory-induced volatiles that attract carnivorous enemies of the inducing herbivores. Here, we compared the attractiveness of eight cucumber varieties (Cucumis sativus L.) to Phytoseiulus persimilis ...
Iris F. Kappers +7 more
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The Asian corn borer (ACB), Ostrinia furnicalis, is a serious corn pest in south-east Asia, causing huge economic losses every year. Trichogramma dendrolimi and Trichogramma ostriniae, two egg parasitoids, have previously been identified as key ...
Yu Wang +5 more
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Noncrop flowering plants restore top-down herbivore control in agricultural fields [PDF]
Herbivore populations are regulated by bottom-up control through food availability and quality and by top-down control through natural enemies. Intensive agricultural monocultures provide abundant food to specialized herbivores and at the same time ...
Pfiffner, Lukas +13 more
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Absolute abundance of natural enemies (parasitoids and predators) on colored sticky traps in Ataulfo mango agroecosystems. (DOCX)
José A. Ortiz (14053692) +6 more
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The agricultural use of silica (SiO2) nanoparticles (NPs) has the potential to control insect pests while the safety and tritrophic effects on plants and beneficial natural enemies remains unknown.
Ahmed F. Thabet +9 more
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Population dynamics of natural enemies on bt / non bt cotton and their correlation with weather parameters [PDF]
The field study was carried out at Research Farm of cotton section, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India to determine the effect of environmental factors and seven cotton genotypes (Bt and non Bt ...
Roomi Rawal +7 more
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In this paper, two species of the genus Austerocardiochiles are recognized from Korea. Among them, Austerocardiochiles turga (Watanabe, 1937) is reported for the first time from Korea. Diagnoses and photographs for the species are provided.
Hye-Rin Lee, Deok-Seo Ku, Bong-Kyu Byun
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