With increasing worldwide pressure on bee pollinator populations and an increase in
insecticide resistance amongst pest insects, there is a growing need for diversification of …

The main contemporary challenge for agriculture is to meet the food demands of the
increasing world population while becoming more environmentally sustainable. One way to …

Habitat management is an important strategy for pest control in integrated pest management
(IPM). Various categories of habitat management such as trap crop**, intercrop** …

The expansion of monocultures and the overuse of agrochemicals have resulted in the loss
of beneficial insects and disruption of ecosystem services such as pollination and biological …

This paper reviews the most important cases of trap crops and insectary plants in the order
Brassicales. Most trap crops in the order Brassicales target insects that are specialist in …

Sustainability of agroecosystems depends on the ecosystem services, provided by
beneficial organisms, such as the syrphids (Diptera: Syrphidae) acting as other‐insect …

This chapter considers ways in which phytophagy by parasitoids and predators may be
studied, particularly with respect to conservation biological control programmes that involve …

Simple Summary Xylella fastidiosa is a serious fitopathogenic bacteria which causes severe
problems in different crops and ornamental plants. This plant disease is transmitted by insect …

Conventional farming imperils diversity and abundance of natural enemies of crop pest in
agroecosystems. Thus, conservation biological control (CBC) receives increasing attention …

The effects of the management regime, mostly differentiated for using or not insecticides, on
biodiversity have frequently been difficult to analyze and understand because of the rapid re …