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Biological pest control has become one of the central principles of ecological intensification in agriculture. However, invertebrate natural enemies w...
Read moreThe potential contribution of vertebrate predators to biological control in orchards has been largely overlooked to date. A few studies have shown tha...
Read moreCarabid beetles are polyphagous predators that can act as biological control agents of insect pests and weeds. While current agricultural practices of...
Read moreSpiders form a major component of the generalist predator fauna, potentially able to restrict pest population growth, but their populations may be foo...
Read moreVegetative buffers in agricultural landscapes can provide a range of important ecological services, including conservation of native flora and fauna, ...
Read moreVegetation cover was manipulated in enclosures in a field boundary in southern England to test experimentally the effect on overwintering by the preda...
Read moreIn a study in an unsprayed cider-apple orchard in Bristol, England, on the importance of egg predation in the population dynamics of Cydia pomonella (...
Read moreThe occurrence of enemy-free space presents a challenge to the top-down control of agricultural pests by natural enemies, making bottom-up factors suc...
Read moreGeneralist insect predators provide an important ecosystem service in the regulation of agricultural pests. However, the role of predation in the dyna...
Read moreThe effects of natural enemies and rainfall on the population dynamics of the pseudococcid Phenacoccus manihoti, and the effects of P. manihoti on the...
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