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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 ...
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, 2023 International audienceIn Integrated Pest Management programs, insecticides are applied to agricultural crops when pest densities exceed a predetermined economic threshold.
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Genomic insights into mite phylogeny, fitness, development, and reproduction
BMC Genomics, 2019 Background Predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) are the most important beneficial arthropods used in augmentative biological pest control of protected crops around the world.
Yan-Xuan Zhang +15 more
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Hibernation of predatory arthropods in semi-natural habitats.
, 2009 Non-crop habitats provide important resources for natural enemies. Many natural enemies hibernate in non-crop habitats, from which they may colonise arable fields in the spring.
Wäckers, Felix L. +8 more
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Testosterone maintains male longevity and female reproduction in Chrysopa pallens
HeliyonVertebrate testosterone, an androgen present in the testes, is essential for male fertility. Vertebrate-type steroid hormones have been identified in insects, but their function remains unknown.
Xiaoping Liu +8 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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Natural Enemy Abundance R Code
, 2018 This is the R script for analyses of natural enemy ...
Smith, Richard Alexander +13 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 ...
Cheke, Robert A. +5 more
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Natural enemy captures Study 1.
, 2014 Mean numbers (± SEM) of natural enemies captured in Study 1 in pitfall traps, yellow sticky cards and visually observed in four wheat fields in 2012 and 2013, Michigan State University campus farm East Lansing, Michigan.Natural enemy captures Study 1.
Douglas A. Landis (148954) +3 more
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