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Improved impact from the use of beneficial natural enemy species in Australian canola systems: challenges and required tools

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
In canola production systems in Australia, practices for the use of beneficials (arthropod predators and parasitoids) as part of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy, have not been widely adopted. We outline how canola growers and their advisors can be supported with incremental steps, from passive to active management, to help shift them from ...
Sarina Macfadyen, Basman Al‐Jalely, Mukti Chalise, Maryam Ehsangar, Zorica Duric, Joanne Holloway, Andrew Hulthen, Precious Mavende, Paul Melloy, Svetlana Micic, Hazel Parry, Shovon Chandra Sarkar, Jessa Thurman, Maarten Van Helden, Xiaobei Wang, Wei Xu   +15 more
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The Puzzle of Partial Resource Use by a Parasitoid Wasp [PDF]

The American Naturalist, 2015
When there is conspicuous underexploitation of a limited resource, it is worth asking, what mechanisms allow presumably valuable resources to be left unused? Evolutionary biologists have generated a wide variety of hypotheses to explain this, ranging from interdemic group selection to selfishly prudent individual restraint.
Montovan, Kathryn J., Couchoux, Christelle, Jones, Laura E., Reeve, Hudson K., van Nouhuys, Saskya   +4 more
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The Thermal Adaptability of Sclerodermus guani Xiao et Wu (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), an Important Parasitoid of Long-Horned Beetles in China

Biology
Sclerodermus guani is the most extensively studied and widely used parasitoid wasp for controlling forest trunk-boring pests in China, with temperature being a key environmental factor affecting its development and reproduction.
Lina Wang, Yuhua Situ, Jie Zhang, Kui Kang, Zhongjiu Xiao, Shaobo Wang, Ke Wei, Yanlong Tang   +7 more
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The European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) as an ally for the control of the invasive yellow‐legged hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)

Pest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 2237-2247, April 2025.
The predatory effect of the honey‐buzzard affects the reproductive performance of Asian‐hornet colonies, decreasing the density of workers over distance and time. The foraging distances of the honey‐buzzard concentrates within the first 2000 m from nest, which supports the results observed.
Jorge Ángel Martín‐Ávila, Luisa María Díaz‐Aranda, José Manuel Fernández‐Pereira, Salvador Rebollo   +3 more
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Anti-aphrodisiac compounds of male butterflies increase the risk of egg parasitoid attack by inducing plant synomone production [PDF]

, 2009
During mating in many butterfly species, males transfer spermatophores that contain anti-aphrodisiacs to females that repel conspecific males. For example, males of the large cabbage white, Pieris brassicae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), transfer the anti ...
Dicke, Marcel, Roland Mumm, Wilma V. Aponte Cordero, Joop J. A. van Loon, Loon, Joop J. A. van, Aponte Cordero, W.V., Foteini G. Pashalidou, Huigens, Martinus E., Loon, J.J.A., van, Fatouros, Nina E., Hilker, Monika, Martinus E. Huigens, Marcel Dicke, Dicke, M., Monika Hilker, Hilker, M., Mumm, R., Huigens, M.E., Mumm, Roland, Nina E. Fatouros, Aponte Cordero, Wilma V., van Loon, J.J.A., Pashalidou, Foteini G., Pashalidou, F.G., Fatouros, N.E.   +24 more
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Effects of timed LED regimes on tomato plant traits, performance of two‐spotted spider mites, and predatory mites (Phytoseiulus persimilis)

Pest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 2300-2311, April 2025.
Light‐emitting diode (LED)‐based treatments for enhancing crop production and pest management have primarily focused on continuous treatments. This study, using Tetranychus urticae and Phytoseiulus persimilis, demonstrates that the timing of LED supplementation is crucial for designing integrated pest management strategies that improve both plant ...
Patrice Savi, Samantha Hall, Maria Hernandez, Anil Mantri, Daniel Kliebenstein, Christian Nansen   +5 more
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Community impacts of anthropogenic disturbance: natural enemies exploit multiple routes in pursuit of invading herbivore hosts [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Biological invasions provide a window on the process of community assembly. In particular, tracking natural enemy recruitment to invading hosts can reveal the relative roles of coevolution (including local adaptation) and ecological sorting ...
Hayward Alexander, Juli Pujade-Villar, Fuentes-Utrilla, Pablo, Nieves-Aldrey, Jose-Luis, Nieves-Aldrey José-Luis, Nieves-Aldrey, J. L., Stone Graham N, Graham N Stone, Hayward, Alexander, Tavakoli Majid, Melika George, Schoenrogge, Karsten, Pablo Fuentes-Utrilla, György Csóka, Csoka, Gyoergy, Melika, George, George Melika, Tavakoli, Majid, Pujade-Villar Juli, Nicholls James A, Schonrogge, Karsten, Csóka György, Alexander Hayward, José-Luis Nieves-Aldrey, Nicholls, James A., Schönrogge Karsten, Majid Tavakoli, Csoka, Gyorgy, James A Nicholls, Stone, Graham N., Fuentes-Utrilla Pablo, Karsten Schönrogge, Pujade-Villar, Juli, Stone, GN, Pujade-Villar, J, Hayward, A, Nicholls, JA, Schönrogge, K, Melika, G, Tavakoli, M, Nieves-Aldrey, J-L, Csóka, G, Fuentes-Utrilla, P   +42 more
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Web architecture alteration of the orb web weaving spider Metellina merianae (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) induced by the parasitoid Megaetaira madida (Ichneumonidae, Polysphincta group)

Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2016
The polysphinctine wasp Megaetaira madida (Haliday, 1838) is a koinobiont ecto-parasitoid of spiders of the genus Metellina. Under the influence of the parasitoid’s final instar larva, the spider host M. merianae (Scopoli, 1763) built a three-dimensional
Korenko, Stanislav
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Discovery of two Palearctic Bootanomyia Girault (Hymenoptera, Megastigmidae) parasitic wasp species introduced to North America [PDF]

Journal of Hymenoptera Research
Invasive species are among the greatest threats to ecosystems, but our ability to detect species introductions varies across taxa. Parasitoid wasps, though one of the most species-rich groups of all animals, are small and have ephemeral adult stages ...
Guerin E. Brown, Corey J. Lewis, Kathy Fridrich, Dylan G. Jones, Elijah A. Goodwin, Christian L. Weinrich, MaKella J. Steffensen, Kirsten M. Prior, Andrew A. Forbes   +8 more
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Impact of Environmental Microparticles on Insect Olfaction

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Terrestrial insects underpin key ecosystem services, including pollination, herbivory regulation, decomposition, nutrient cycling, and disease control. These functions depend on chemical communication that guides insects to food, mates, hosts, shelters, and oviposition sites while helping them avoid threats.
Steve B. S. Baleba, Danube K. N. Wandji, Yves H. Tchiechoua, Komi Mensah Agboka, Iman B. Hassaballa, Victor O. Omondi, Beatrice T. Nganso, Saliou Niassy, Souleymane Diallo, Merid N. Getahun   +9 more
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