Developing and Analysing Pest-natural Enemy Systems with IPM Strategies

Dual Defense: Pest-resistant Turf and Natural Enemy Interactions

Natural enemy interactions constrain pest control in complex agricultural landscapes.

Biological control of pests by natural enemies is a major ecosystem service delivered to agriculture worldwide. Quantifying and predicting its effectiveness at large spatial scales is critical for increased sustainability of agricultural production. Landscape complexity is known to benefit natural enemies, but its effects on interactions between natural enemies and the consequences for crop dam...

Theoretical Study of Pest Control Using Stage Structured Natural Enemies with Maturation Delay: A Crop-Pest-Natural Enemy Model

In the natural world, there are many insect species whose individual members have a life history that takes them through two stages, immature and mature. Moreover, the rates of survival, development, and reproduction almost always depend on age, size, or development stage. Keeping this in mind, in this paper, a three species crop-pest-natural enemy food chain model with two stages for natural e...

Developing Natural Pest Control Products for Turf

continued on page 4 The term allelopathy was first introduced in 1937 and refers to biochemical interactions among plants that alters plant growth, including those mediated by microorganisms. Allelopathy, besides including competition for resources among plants, is considered to be an important mechanism of plant interference caused by the addition of plant-produced toxins to the plant environm...

Integrated pest management (IPM): definition, historical development and implementation, and the other IPM.

In the long run, this holistic approach to dealing with pests should reduce pesticide use, provide economic savings for the farmer and protect both the environment and human health. The term ‘integrated’ implies incorporation of natural enemy/antagonist levels into decision-making, and use of compatible, non-disruptive tactics that preserve these agents. Integration can be viewed as either vert...