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A Guide to Scale Insect Identification

EDIS, 2018
Control of scale insects in Florida citrus utilizes native and introduced exotic natural enemies, including predators, parasites, and pathogens. Under most conditions, predators and parasites suppress scale pest populations to a level where chemical ...
Stephen H. Futch, C.W. McCoy, C.C. Childers   +2 more
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Genera Colastes Haliday, Colastinus Belokobylskij, and Xenarcha Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Exothecinae) from the Korean Peninsula with a discussion on the Exothecinae genus and subgenus composition [PDF]

ZooKeys
The Exothecinae genera Colastes Haliday, 1833, Colastinus Belokobylskij, 1984, and Xenarcha Foerster, 1863 of the Korean peninsula are reviewed. The names Pseudophanomeris Belokobylskij, 1984 and Shawiana van Achterberg, 1983 are synonymised with the ...
Sergey A. Belokobylskij, Deokseo Ku
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Wolbachia infection facilitates adaptive increase in male egg size in response to environmental changes

Scientific Reports
Under challenging conditions such as maladapted biotic and abiotic conditions, females can plastically adjust their egg size (gamete or zygote size) to counteract fitness declines early in life.
Eloïse Leroy, Siyi Gao, Maya Gonzalez, Marie-Pierre Ellies-Oury, Midori Tuda   +4 more
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Review of the genus Paradelius De Saeger, 1942 of East Asia (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cheloninae, Adeliini) with the description of a new species from South Korea [PDF]

ZooKeys
The East Palaearctic species of the adeliine genus Paradelius De Saeger, 1942 are reviewed. The genus Sculptomyriola Belokobylskij, 1988 is synonymised with Paradelius and treated as its subgenus.
Sergey A. Belokobylskij, Deokseo Ku, Xue-xin Chen   +2 more
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Chromosomal-level genome assembly of Trichogramma japonicum (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

Scientific Data
Trichogramma japonicum is one of the successfully industrialized Trichogramma species in China and holds significant application value for controlling the rice pests Chilo suppressalis.
Zhuo Jiang, Xiaoyan Zhu, Xiao Wang, Qi Chen, Wentao Zhang, Zhaoreng Li, Xilin Jiao, Zelong Yang, Wenmei Du, Junjie Zhang, Bingzhong Ren, Ying Hu   +11 more
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Optimum timing for integrated pest management: Modelling rates of pesticide application and natural enemy releases [PDF]

, 2010
Many factors including pest natural enemy ratios, starting densities, timings of natural enemy releases, dosages and timings of insecticide applications and instantaneous killing rates of pesticides on both pests and natural enemies can affect the ...
Barclay, Barclay, Barlow, Beddington, Bonsall, Burnett, Carpenter, Debach, Foster, Greathead, Guangyao Tang, Hassell, Hassell, Hoddle, Hoddle, Hoffmann, Jones, Liu, Lotka, May, May, Neuenschwander, Parker, Pedigo, Robert A. Cheke, Ruberson, Sanyi Tang, Tang, Tang, Tang, Tang, Tang, Tang, Udayagiri, Van Lenteren, Van Lenteren, Van Lenteren, Waage, Waage   +38 more
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New faunistic data on the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) from Korea

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2014
Twenty-one species of the four genera in the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) are reported for the first time in Korea. These species belong to the subfamily Euphorinae (Braconidae). Faunistic and distribution data are included.
Tae-Ho An, Sergey A. Belokobylskij, Hyojoong Kim, Ki-Gyoung Kim, Hong-Yul Seo, Deok-Seo Ku   +5 more
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The Efficacy of Biological Control for the Suppression of the Pea Aphid (Acyrthosiphon Pisum): Does the Resistance of Alfalfa Cultivars Matter?

Insects, 2022
The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum Harris, is a major pest of alfalfa in northwestern China. However, the roles of different groups of natural enemies in combination with aphid-resistant cultivars in the suppression of the pea aphid have not been ...
Xiang Zhang, Qiong Wu, Jianing Mu, Zunqi Chao, Qi He, Ting Gao, Chuan Wang, Mark R. McNeill, Zhaozhi Lu   +8 more
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Landscape and biodiversity as new resources for agro-ecology? Insights from farmers’ perspectives [PDF]

, 2017
Pesticide reduction is a key current challenge. Scientific findings in landscape ecology suggest that complex landscapes favor insect pest biological control by conservation of natural enemy habitats. A potential agro-ecological innovation is to conserve
Barnaud, Cécile, Salliou, Nicolas
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A new species of Merismomorpha Girault, 1913 (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae) from the Palaearctic region [PDF]

Journal of Hymenoptera Research
A new species of Merismomorpha Girault, 1913, M. ulleungensis Tselikh, Rasplus & Ku, sp. nov., is described and illustrated from the Palaearctic region (Russian Far East and South Korea).
Ekaterina V. Tselikh, Jean-Yves Rasplus, Jaehyeon Lee, Natalie Dale-Skey, Ankita Gupta, Deok-Seo Ku   +5 more
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