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The numbers of dead and live Sitobion avenae falling to the ground in a wheat crop in 1988-89 in the UK were estimated. The estimates showed that more...
Read moreContinuous availability of food resources, such as pollen, is vital for many insects that provide pollination and pest control services to agriculture...
Read moreAgroecological farming uses crop and non-crop plant biodiversity to promote beneficial insects supplying pollination and biocontrol services to crops....
Read moreThe large-scale use of organochlorine compounds in insect control causes increasing concern due to their toxicity and persistance which creates enviro...
Read moreIncreasing natural pest control in agricultural fields is an important aim of ecological intensification. Combined effects of landscape context and lo...
Read moreThe weather is believed to affect the establishment of insect biological control agents in the field, in particular heavy rainfall immediately after r...
Read moreThe impact of the oligophagous capitulum weevil Larinus latus on seed production by its host Onopordum species was studied in its native range in orde...
Read more1. Increasing plant diversity in agricultural systems is a promising way to balance food production and biodiversity conservation. Biological pest con...
Read moreS. jacobaea plants were grown under different irrigation regimes to assess the effect of summer moisture stress on their capacity to compensate for de...
Read moreA new model for the biological control of the pest weevil Sitona discoideus by the parasitoid Microctonus aethiopoides is presented. Based on an earli...
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