Since its invasion of the southeastern United States in 2009, bean plataspid or kudzu bug, Megacopta cribraria (F.) (Hemiptera: Plataspidae), has become an agricultural pest soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merrill (Gardner et al. 2013, J. Entomol. Sci. 48: 355–359; Lahiri and Reisig 2016, Integrated Pest Manage. 7: 1–6; Ruberson Appl. Zool. 3–13). The use chemical-based arthropod control is dominate ...

The Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programme for brassicas in many countries of south-east Asia follows a generic model whose basic components are: (i) Regular scouting of pests, namely the diamondback moth (DBM) and its major natural enemies to ascertain their population levels to justify insecticidal treatments; (ii) Use of pre-determined economic threshold levels (ETLs) and (iii) Incorpora...