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Natural-Enemy-Based Biocontrol of Tobacco Arthropod Pests in China
Agronomy, 2023 The devastating impact of chemical pesticides has prompted a shift towards sustainable agricultural pest management, such as biological control with natural enemies.
Wenxin Xue +4 more
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Pest control of aphids depends on landscape complexity and natural enemy interactions [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Aphids are a major concern in agricultural crops worldwide, and control by natural enemies is an essential component of the ecological intensification of agriculture.
Emily A. Martin +3 more
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Enemy escape: A general phenomenon in a fragmented literature?
FACETS, 2017 Many populations are thought to be regulated, in part, by their natural enemies. If so, disruption of this regulation should allow rapid population growth.
Julia J. Mlynarek +10 more
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Carabids for Natural-Enemy Pest Control: combining ecology and knowledge exchange to bridge the gaps [PDF]
, 2022 Carabid beetles are proven predators of crop pests and weed seeds. Agri-environmental measures, such as grass margins and beetle banks, are beneficial to the abundance and diversity of carabids.
Jowett, K., Jowett, Kelly
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The role of natural enemy foraging guilds in controlling cereal aphids in Michigan wheat. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Insect natural enemies (predators and parasitoids) provide important ecosystem services by suppressing populations of insect pests in many agricultural crops.
Shahlo Safarzoda +3 more
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Insects, 2022 The development of artificial diets could considerably simplify and reduce the cost of mass rearing of natural enemies compared to conventional rearing methods. However, improvement of artificial diets can be tedious, convoluted and often uncertain.
Deyu Zou +8 more
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Alternative prey impedes the efficacy of a natural enemy of mosquitoes
, 2023 Data from: Alternative prey impedes the efficacy of a natural enemy of mosquitoes.
Ross Cuthbert (17425458) +7 more
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Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022 The natural enemies hypothesis predicts that the abundance and diversity of antagonists such as predators and parasitoids of herbivores increases with the diversity of plants, which can lead to more effective top-down control of insect herbivores ...
Alex Stemmelen +3 more
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Stages of the Cottony Cushion Scale (Icerya purchasi) and its Natural Enemy, the Vedalia Beetle (Rodolia cardinalis) [PDF]
, 2002 Color photos of various life stages of cottony cushion scale and a natural enemy used for its biocontrol, the vedalia beetle.
Grafton-Cardwell, Beth +1 more
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