In recent years, the use of predatory mirid bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae) in horticultural crops
has increased considerably. Mirid bugs are zoophytophagous predators, that is, they display …

Abstract Tuta absoluta (Meyrick)(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is a key insect pest, seriously
damaging tomato crops and inducing tremendous yield and economic losses. The area of …

BACKGROUND Pesticides can be noxious to non‐target beneficial arthropods and their
negative effects have been recently recognized even at low doses. The predator …

Zoophytophagous hemipteran predators provide relevant biological control services and
their applications are consolidated in greenhouse pest management. The use of plant …

Several biological control agents of the hemipteran insect families Miridae, Anthocoridae
and Pentatomidae, as well as mites of the family Phytoseiidae are known as …

Zoophytophagous predators play an important, though sometimes controversial, role in pest
management programs in different crops. In tomato crops, damage caused by phytophagy of …

Aims Plant-beneficial fungi are non-pathogenic fungi that provide a variety of benefits to
crops, including improved nutrition and increased resistance against biotic and abiotic …

Ecotoxicological risk assessments of pesticides on non-target arthropods are often carried
out under constant and optimal temperature regimes. However, living organisms rarely …

A considerable body of evidence has demonstrated the positive impact of the diversity of
plant species on biological control of pests at the field scale. However, very few studies have …

Abstract Tuta absoluta (Meyrick)(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), a pinworm native to South
America, has invaded Tunisia, as well as the whole African continent, since 2008 inducing …