Many factors including pest natural enemy ratios, starting densities, timings of natural enemy releases, dosages and timings of insecticide applications and instantaneous killing rates of pesticides on both pests and natural enemies can affect the success of IPM control programmes. To address how such factors influence successful pest control, hybrid impulsive pest-natural enemy models with dif...

We describe the isolation and characterization of 11 polymorphic microsatellite loci from the recently discovered fruit fly pest, Bactrocera invadens. The polymorphism of these loci was tested in individual flies from two natural populations (Sri Lanka and Democratic Republic of Congo). Allele number per locus ranged from three to 15 and eight loci displayed a polymorphic information content gr...

Insect pest is one of the main causes affecting agricultural crop yield and quality all over world. Rapid reliable insect monitoring plays a crucial role in population prediction control actions. The great breakthrough deep learning (DL) technology has resulted its successful applications various fields, including automatic monitoring. DL creates both new strengths series challenges for data pr...

This document provides the conclusions of pest survey card that was prepared in context EFSA mandate on plant surveillance (M-2020-0114) at request European Commission. The full for non-EU Tephritidae affecting ornamental plants, bamboo and tea seeds is published available online following link will be updated whenever new information becomes available: https://efsa.europa.eu/plants/planthealth...

The cotton pest, pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders)), is a significant pest in most cotton-growing areas around the world. In southwestern USA and northern Mexico, pink bollworm is the target of the sterile insect technique (SIT), which relies on the mass-release of sterile pink bollworm adults to over-flood the wild population and thereby reduce it over time. Sterile moths rear...

The emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Col., Buprestidae), an invasive pest currently threatening the complete destruction of North America’s ash resource, was first detected in the Midwestern United States and adjacent Canada in 2002 (Haack et al. 2002). Effective detection and monitoring of this pest has so far remained elusive (Poland and McCullough 2006). Identifying a ...

The success of the harvest period will greatly affect agricultural output itself. Processing fields that still use traditional methods affects crop yields, cause effect yields is pests faced by farmers. Rice plant often interfere are insect pests. Based on background, in this study designed a monitoring system for traps and automatic midges to cope with rice plants from pest attacks using IoT (...

Wireworms, the soil-dwelling larvae of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae), comprise major pests several crops worldwide, including maize and potatoes. The current trend towards reduction in pesticides use has resulted strong demand for alternative methods to control wireworm populations. This review provides a state-of-the-art theory practice order develop new agroecological strategies. fir...