Effects of urban heat islands on temperate forest trees and arthropods

SD Frank, KM Backe - Current Forestry Reports, 2023‏ - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Our goal is to provide an overview of how urban heat islands
affect forests and synthesize recent literature on that topic. We focused on direct effects of …

Review of the direct and indirect effects of warming and drought on scale insect pests of forest systems

SD Frank - Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Higher temperatures and drought are key aspects of global change with the potential to alter
the distribution and severity of many arthropod pests in forest systems. Scale insects …

General biology and current management approaches of soft scale pests (Hemiptera: Coccidae)

ER Camacho, JH Chong - Journal of Integrated Pest …, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
We summarize the economic importance, biology, and management of soft scales, focusing
on pests of agricultural, horticultural, and silvicultural crops in outdoor production systems …

[HTML][HTML] Insects: the disregarded domestication histories

T Lecocq - Animal domestication, 2018‏ - intechopen.com
Domestication has irrevocably impacted human evolution. The domestication
process/pathways have been the focus of abundant research for plants and vertebrates …

Identifying factors associated with the success and failure of terrestrial insect translocations

J Bellis, D Bourke, C Williams, S Dalrymple - Biological Conservation, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Translocation is increasingly used as a management strategy to mitigate the effects of
human activity on biodiversity. Based on the current literature, we summarised trends in …

The spread of the non-native pine tortoise scale Toumeyella parvicornis (Hemiptera: Coccidae) in Europe: A major threat to Pinus pinea in Southern Italy

AP Garonna, A Foscari, E Russo, G Jesu, S Somma… - IForest, 2018‏ - arts.units.it
Invasive pests are considered a major threat to biodiversity, conservation and agriculture.
The Italian peninsula is a major site of intensive commercial exchange and transport of …

First detection of Ixodiphagus hookeri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) in Ixodes ricinus ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from multiple locations in Hungary

AG Tóth, R Farkas, M Gyurkovszky, E Krikó… - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
The parasitoid wasp, Ixodiphagus hookeri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), is the natural enemy
of a wide range of hard and soft tick species. While these encyrtid wasps are supposed to be …

Taxon-specific ultraconserved element probe design for phylogenetic analyses of scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea)

D Liu, M Niu, Y Lu, J Wei, H Zhang - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Scale insects (Coccoidea) are morphologically specialized members of the order Hemiptera,
with 56 families recognized to date. However, the phylogenetic relationships within and …

The diversity of biological control agents

RFH Sforza - Biological control: A global endeavour (PG Mason …, 2021‏ - books.google.com
This chapter will focus on groups of agents used in the biological control of arthropod pests
(insects and mites), plant diseases and weedy plants. In fact, biological control of other …

Hymenopteran parasitoids associated with scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in tropical fruit trees in the eastern Amazon, Brazil

ASJC Ramos, RNS De Lemos, VA Costa… - Florida …, 2018‏ - BioOne
Fifteen species of parasitoids emerged from 6 species of scale insects, all are recorded for
the first time in Maranhão State, Brazil. A total of 20 coccoid/parasitoid associations were …