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Effects of field vegetation control on pine weevil (Hylobius abietis) damage to newly planted Norway spruce seedlings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
We investigated interactions between field vegetation and seedling damage caused by a major insect pest, the pine weevil Hylobius abietis (L.), in an experiment established on a clear-cut area in southern Sweden.
Nordlander, Göran   +5 more
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Economic Evaluation of Beltwide Boll Weevil/Cotton Insect Management Programs (Appendix B) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Alternative boll weevil/cotton insect management programs were evaluated for their effects on net market benefits and for their distributive impacts on producers and consumers.
Economic Evaluation Team, USDA Interagency Working Group on Boll Weevil Programs
core   +1 more source

An Integrated Management Approach for Red Palm Weevil Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus Oliv. a Key Pest of Date Palm in the Middle East

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, 1998
The date palm, Phoenix doctylifera L., is the most important fruit crop in the Middle East, cultivated since prehistoric times. Since mid-eighties the dreaded pest of palms viz. the red palm weevil. Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Oliv.
V.A. Abraham   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Weevils, weevils, weevils everywhere*

open access: yesZootaxa, 2007
An overview is presented of the progress made on the taxonomy, classification and phylogeny of weevils in the 250 years since the first taxonomic descriptions of weevils by Carolus Linnaeus. The number of described weevils species is calculated to be about 62 000 and the likely total number of existing species 220 000, indicating that we have described
Oberprieler, Rolf   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Efficacy of agrochemicals against Phyllobius oblongus

open access: yesPlant Protection Science, 2020
The contact, residual, and ingestion efficacy of two conventional insecticides was compared with that of another five environmentally friendly agrochemicals in a laboratory for the control of the European snout beetle. Very good efficacy was observed for
Michal Skalský   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dust to weevils, weevils to dust: maize weevil personality and susceptibility to diatomaceous earth

open access: yesJournal of Pest Science, 2015
The role of behavior in insecticide susceptibility is broadly recognized, in addition to the physiological effects of insecticides. Curiously, the recognition of the importance of behavior does not extend to the control by physical agents, like inert dusts such as diatomaceous earth (DE).
H. A. E. Malia   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

DianaTWhite/Weevil-Meta: v1.0

open access: yes, 2022
Rough data used in metadata analysis for developing predictive model for weevil efficacy at Eurasian watermilfoil reduction. metadata used to build the machine learning model (SVM)
Diana White
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Exploring an Odor-Baited “Trap Bush” Approach to Aggregate Plum Curculio (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Injury in Blueberries

open access: yesInsects, 2019
This 2-year study (2013–2014) assessed the efficacy of an odor-baited “trap bush„ approach to aggregate plum curculio, Conotrachelus nenuphar, adult injury, i.e., number of oviposition-scared fruit, in four commercial highbush blueberry
Cesar Rodriguez-Saona   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of the Hygrophilous Weevils in Israel (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)

open access: yesDiversity, 2018
Forty-one species in 20 genera of hygrophilous weevils belonging to Brentidae and Curculionidae, associated with inland aquatic habitats, have been recorded recently from Israel, eight of them for the first time.
Ariel-Leib-Leonid Friedman
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory validation and optimization of the Triple S method for sweetpotato planting material conservation in southern Ethiopia

open access: yesOpen Agriculture, 2022
A climate-resilient, root-based sweetpotato planting material (SPM) conservation method called “Triple S” or “Storage in Sand and Sprouting” has created timely access to sweetpotato planting material in areas with a prolonged dry season in Uganda and ...
Hundayehu Mihiretu C.   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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