Improving Natural Enemy Selection in Biological Control through Greater Attention to Chemical Ecology and Host-Associated Differentiation of Target Arthropod Pests. [PDF]
Insects, 2022 Simple Summary Some species of insect herbivores can feed on a wide variety of plant species. Over evolutionary time, insect herbivores can associate preferentially with different host-plant species, which frequently leads to genetic divergence between ...
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Intercropping Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) with Sweet Pepper (Capsicum annum) Reduces Major Pest Population Densities without Impacting Natural Enemy Populations. [PDF]
Insects, 2021 Simple Summary Due to the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment and human health, alternative control methods have become more favored in vegetable pest management.
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Organic farming expansion drives natural enemy abundance but not diversity in vineyard-dominated landscapes. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2019 Organic farming is seen as a prototype of ecological intensification potentially able to conciliate crop productivity and biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes.
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Can plant-natural enemy communication withstand disruption by biotic and abiotic factors? [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2016 The attraction of natural enemies towards herbivore‐induced plant volatiles is a well‐documented phenomenon. However, the majority of published studies are carried under optimal water and nutrient regimes and with just one herbivore.
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BioControl, 2014 Biological pest control in greenhouse crops is usually based on periodical releases of mass-produced natural enemies, and this method has been successfully applied for decades. However, in some cases there are shortcomings in pest control efficacy, which
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Solving the Wolbachia Paradox: Modeling the Tripartite Interaction between Host, Wolbachia, and a Natural Enemy [PDF]
American Naturalist, 2011 Wolbachia is one of the most common symbionts of arthropods. Its establishment requires lateral transfer to and successful transmission within novel host species.
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Effects of Grassland Habitat and Plant Nutrients on Soybean Aphid and Natural Enemy Populations [PDF]
, 2011 The soybean aphid Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is an invasive economic pest of soybean (Glycine max[L.] Merrill) in the United States.
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Give predators a complement: Conserving natural enemy biodiversity to improve biocontrol
Biological Control, 2019 William E. Snyder
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Lack of phenotypic and evolutionary cross-resistance against parasitoids and pathogens in Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]
, 2012 BackgroundWhen organisms are attacked by multiple natural enemies, the evolution of a resistance mechanism to one natural enemy will be influenced by the degree of cross-resistance to another natural enemy.
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Urban warming trumps natural enemy regulation of herbivorous pests
Ecological Applications, 2014 Adam G Dale, Steven D Frank
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