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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
doaj   +3 more sources

Enemy release: loss of parasites in invasive freshwater bivalves Sinanodonta woodiana and Corbicula fluminea

Ecography, EarlyView.
Invasive freshwater bivalves harm native species, ecosystems and biodiversity, and incur economic costs. The enemy release hypothesis posits that invasive species are released from enemies during the invasion process, giving them a competitive advantage in the new environment.
Binglin Deng, Nicoletta Riccardi, Pin Nie, Maria Urbańska, Timo J. Marjomäki, Wojciech Andrzejewski, Małgorzata Ożgo, Keiko Nakamura, Jouni Taskinen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Tomtit‐Raven Evolutionary Selector‐Reinforced Attention‐Driven: A High‐Performance and Computationally Efficient Cyber Threat Detection Framework for Smart Grids

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
Overview of the proposed work. ABSTRACT Identifying cyber threats maintains the security and operational stability of smart grid systems because they experience escalating attacks that endanger both operating data reliability and system stability and electricity grid performance.
Priya R. Karpaga, Praveen Kumar Balachandran, Umawathy Techanamurthy, Muhammad Ammirrul Atiqi Mohd Zainuri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
core   +2 more sources

Climate Change Has Already Reshaped North American Forest Pest Dynamics: Insights From Multidecadal Process‐Based Modelling

Global Change Biology Communications, EarlyView.
Climate change has rapidly expanded and shifted suitable climate conditions for eight major forest pests across North America, especially toward northern and higher elevation areas. Host exposure and overlap among pests are increasing, raising ecological and economic risks, and signaling accelerating future impacts under continued warming.
Yan Boulanger, Chris J. K. MacQuarrie, Véronique Martel, Jacques Régnière, Rémi Saint‐Amant, Kishan Sambaraju   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peran Insektisida Botani Ekstrak Biji Mimba Untuk Konservasi Musuh Alami Dalam Pengelolaan Serangga Hama Kapas. [PDF]

, 2009
Natural Enemies Conservation: The Role of Neem-seed Extracts for Natural Enemies Conservation Used of Cotton Insect Pest Control. Insects associated with cotton plant are numerous, as the plant bears extrafloral nectar.
nurindah, N. (nurindah), Sunarto, D. A. (Dwi)   +1 more
core  

Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison, Jason Brennan, Peter Jaworski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Silica and Selenium Nanoparticles Attract or Repel Scale Insects by Altering Physicochemical Leaf Traits

Plants
Although nanoparticles have gained attention as efficient alternatives to conventional agricultural chemicals, there is limited knowledge regarding their effects on herbivorous insect behavior and plant physicochemistry. Here, we investigated the effects
Siyi Gao, Midori Tuda
doaj   +1 more source

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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