TB190: Spider Predation in Agroecosystems: Can Spiders Effectively Control Pest Populations.

D Maloney, FA Drummond, R Alford - 2003‏ - digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu
Recent trends in agriculture towards reduced pesticide use and ecological sustainability
have lead to increased interest in spiders as potential biological control agents. Although the …

[HTML][HTML] Side effects of insecticides on natural enemies and possibility of their integration in plant protection strategies

N El-Wakeil, N Gaafar, A Sallam… - … -Development of safer …, 2013‏ - intechopen.com
Recently, plant protection strategy has recommended, minimizing the use of chemical
pesticides. Therefore, studying the side effect of insecticides on the natural enemies is highly …

Life history plasticity magnifies the ecological effects of a social wasp invasion

EE Wilson, LM Mullen, DA Holway - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009‏ - pnas.org
An unresolved question in ecology concerns why the ecological effects of invasions vary in
magnitude. Many introduced species fail to interact strongly with the recipient biota, whereas …

Nontarget impacts of herbicides on spiders in orchards

RA Schmidt-Jeffris, EA Moretti… - Journal of economic …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Spiders are key predators in many agroecosystems, including orchards. Despite the
importance of spiders in biological control, pesticide nontarget effects on this group are …

[PDF][PDF] Spider population and their predatory efficiency in different rice establishment techniques in Aduthurai, Tamil Nadu

S Jayakumar, A Sankari - Journal of Biopesticides, 2010‏ - jbiopest.com
The role of spiders in regulation of insect pests has been studied in the rice ecosystem ADT
39 cultivated by different Rice Establishment Techniques, namely Transplantation (T1) …

Semi‐natural habitats benefit maintaining the spider diversity in subtropical agroecosystems

X Geng, Y Lin, Y He, J Liao, J Ran… - Land Degradation & …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Land use change has caused the loss of agricultural biodiversity. As major natural enemies
of pests in agroecosystems, spiders have important ecological functions in improving …

Interactions of transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal crops with spiders (Araneae)

JA Peterson, JG Lundgren, JD Harwood - The Journal of Arachnology, 2011‏ - BioOne
Genetically modified crops expressing insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)
have dramatically increased in acreage since their introduction in the mid-1990's. Although …

Identificación y abundancia de artrópodos depredadores en los cultivos de cítricos Valencianos

L Alvis Dávila - 2019‏ - riunet.upv.es
A fin de obtener información sobre las especies de artrópodos depredadores que viven en
los cultivos de cítricos del País Valenciano se han analizado muestras recogidas cada …

Biological control potential of spiders on the selected cotton pests.

S Jeyaparvathi, S Baskaran… - … Journal of Pharmacy …, 2013‏ - search.ebscohost.com
Spiders have a wide insect host range and thus can act as biological control agents of insect
pests in agroecosystems. In the present study, the four species of spiders like (Peucetia …

Effects of hedgerows and riparian margins on aerial web-building spiders in cereal fields

SC Pfister, RB Schäfer, J Schirmel… - The Journal of Arachnology, 2015‏ - BioOne
Spiders (Araneae) are dominant predators in agro-ecosystems. Terrestrial seminatural
habitats, such as hedgerows and grassy field margins, can enhance the abundance and …