Plant proteases are well known for their various industrial applications. Papain, present in papaya latex (Carica papaya) and pineapple bromelain (Ananas comosus), is undoubtedly the most studied widely used vegetable protease food pharmaceutical industry worldwide. However, its potential as a biopesticide has been little explored. The objective of this study was to evaluate activity from Caric...

Sustainable pest control strategies hinge on the knowledge of movement ecology within agricultural landscape where contrasted habitat qualities intermingle, thereby influencing arthropod dispersal. Hence, manipulation in space and time can be a lever for action to pests with regard compositional constraints. In this study, we examined role grassland arrangements field colonisation by soil-dwell...

The intensification of agriculture in olive groves, especially the modification or elimination spontaneous vegetation, alters relationships arthropod communities and reduces their interactions ecosystem services. This study was carried out nine groves which there either a planted cover crop, crop bare ground. ground-dwelling, canopy flying arthropods trophic webs were calculated for each grove ...

The 21st century is well under way, and along with the new century has come the emergence and reemergence of arthropodborne diseases. Because of the growing number of challenges these diseases pose to human health, arthropods have garnered heightened concern in the medical community. The concept of symptomatic treatment at the local level may no longer be suffi cient to treat certain major type...

Understanding the trophic interactions of introduced predators is key for evidence-based management biological invasions. This particularly important in oceanic islands, where predator-prey networks often include numerous endemic and range-restricted species. Geckos are successful island colonizers recent years species have established populations a wide array islands. One such Moorish gecko ( ...