The concept of remote insect surveillance at large spatial scales for many serious insect pests of agricultural and medical importance has been introduced in a series of our papers. We augment typical, low-cost plastic traps for many insect pests with the necessary optoelectronic sensors to guard the entrance of the trap to detect, time-stamp, GPS tag, and—in relevant cases—identify the species...

We would like to thank all commentators for their insightful and thought-provoking commentaries [1–4] that also helped to further broaden the scope of our review [5] as well as to extend the list of references. We very much appreciate the positive comments on the relevance, timeliness and comprehensiveness of our work. Meanwhile, we want to emphasize that multiscale pest monitoring is an emergi...

The timing of pest insect attacks can vary greatly from region to region and from year to year. A simulation method, based on rates of insect development, has been developed for forecasting the timing of insect attacks on cruciferous crops. The method is based on using a fixed number of individuals from one generation to the next and simulates the timing of events in the life cycle of the pests...

McPhail traps loaded with various attractant solutions (ammonium sulphate, Entomela 75%, Entomela 50%, Dacus bait 100, sexual pheromone of olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae) combined also with registered plant protection products (lambda-cyhalothrin, alpha-cypermethrin as well as dimethoate) were tested for their attractiveness which was indicated as captures of flies in McPhail traps during thr...

Many existing pest control models, which control pests by releasing natural enemies, neglect the effect that natural enemies may get killed. From this point of view, we formulate a pest control model with stage structure for the pest with constant maturation time delay through-stage time delay and periodic releasing natural enemies and natural enemies killed at different fixed time and perform ...

The paper is an overview of our recent results achieved with different coauthors, concerning several research lines of applied population dynamics we initiated some years ago, and mostly published in 2010. First, based on the classical Leslie population model, a dynamic demographic model including controlled immigration is recalled, and applying the Perron-Frobenius theory of nonnegative matric...

Pest insects harm crops, livestock and human health, either directly or by acting as vectors of disease. The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)--mass-release of sterile insects to mate with, and thereby control, their wild counterparts--has been used successfully for decades to control several pest species, including pink bollworm, a lepidopteran pest of cotton. Although it has been suggested that ...

the spherical mealybug (nipaecoccus viridis newsted) is one of the most harmful pest of citrus, oleander and mulberry in green space of shiraz region. this study was carried out to detect the population dynamics of this pest and the role of biotic and abiotic factors on it in 2007-2008. the spherical mealybug, in both years, started its activity from early may on citrus and oleander trees, but ...

Over the past decade there has been a revolution in the development of new affordable sensing and tracking technology, and this has led to the deployment of a vast array of location sensors and data loggers for monitoring and recording animal movement [1,2]. This revolution has led to an enormous amount of animal movement data being collected and much of this is now freely available [3]. Alongs...