Plant-insect Chemical Communication and Its Behavior Control

Plant volatile chemicals play a decisive role in the plant insect chemical communication, and regulating insect behaviors, such as attracting insect toward...

JW Du - 《Acta Photophysiologica Sinica》

Nano-particles - A recent approach to insect pest control

Nanotechnology, a promising field of research opens up in the present decade a wide array of opportunities in the present decade and is expected to give ma...

A Bhattacharyya，A Bhaumik，PU Rani，... - 《African Journal of Biotechnology》

Periodic Release and Manipulation of Natural Enemies - ScienceDirect

This chapter explores possible avenues that are available, or may be developed, for the manipulation of natural enemies to improve their effectiveness in c...

GW Elzen，EG King - 《Handbook of Biological Control》

Manipulation of Chemically Mediated Interactions in Agricultural Soils to Enhance the Control of Crop Pests and to Improve Crop Yield

In most agro-ecosystems the organisms that feed on plant roots have an important impact on crop yield and can impose tremendous costs to farmers. Similar t...

I Hiltpold，TCJ Turlings - 《Journal of Chemical Ecology》

Manipulation of Natural Enemies in Agroecosystems: Habitat and Semiochemicals for Sustainable Insect Pest Control

Plants are not capable of running away from their enemies, ie, the herbivores that may eat them. However, under certain circumstances, plants can rely on the natural enemies of insect herbivores for protection. These natural enemies incl...

C Rodriguez-Saona，BR Blaauw，R Isaacs - InTech

Habitat manipulation in lucerne (Medicago sativa L.): Strip harvesting to enhance biological control of insect pests

Habitat manipulation by strip harvesting as a means of enhancing biological control of insect pests was tested in a commercial field of lucerne. Vacuum sam...

Z Hossain，GM Gurr，SD Wratten - 《Pans Pest Articles & News Summaries》

Integrated manipulation of storage insects by pheromones and food attractants — a proposal

A new concept for the integrated manipulation of storage pests, which is based on insect trapping by sex and food attractants along with insecticidal fumig...

H.，Z.，Levinson，... - 《Zeitschrift Für Angewandte Entomologie》

Environmental manipulation for microbial control of insects

The chapter discusses the ecological/epizootiological basis for environmental manipulations, reviews research on this approach and the criteria to choose insect/entomopathogen systems for research and implementation. Research on environm...

JR Fuxa - Conservation Biological Control

Neuroethology of Olfactory-Guided Behavior and Its Potential Application in the Control of Harmful Insects

Harmful insects include pests of crops and storage goods, and vectors of human and animal diseases. Throughout their history, humans have been fighting the...

CE Reisenman，H Lei，PG Guerenstein - 《Frontiers in Physiology》