Biology, Ecology, and Management of Key Sorghum Insect Pests

Insect pests of tea and their management.

Globally, 1031 species of arthropods are associated with the intensively managed tea Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze monoculture. All parts of the plant, leaf, stem, root, flower, and seed, are fed upon by at least one pest species, resulting in an 11%-55% loss in yield if left unchecked. There has been heavy use of organosynthetic pesticides since the 1950s to defend the plant against these p...

Ecology and management of arthropod pests of poultry.

The worldwide spread of modern, high-density confined poultry production systems under the direction of integrators has intensified the importance of a select number of arthropod ectoparasites and habitat pests. This concentrated production of poultry provides artificial ecosystems that are sometimes ideal for the development of large populations of arthropod pests. At the same time the systems...

The ecology of vertebrate pests and integrated pest management (IPM)

Farmer Management Practices of Citrus Insect Pests in Kenya

A formal citrus insect pest survey was conducted in two citrus growing districts of Kenya, Bungoma and Machakos, to determine important insect pests of citrus and evaluate the pest control practices used by small-scale farmers. Observations were made on the insect pests and their damage, methods of pest control practiced, pesticide products used, sources of farming knowledge and how decisions t...

Impact of climate change on insect pests, plant chemical ecology, tritrophic interactions and food production

1 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502324, Telangana, India. 2 Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004, India. 3 Department of Botany and Biotechnology, Degree College Sopore-193201, J&K, India. 4 Department of Entomology, SKUAST-K; Shalimar, Srinagar, J&K, India. *Corresponding author: abdul...