Push-Pull: Chemical Ecology-Based Integrated Pest Management Technology

Push-pull Strategy for Insect Pest Management

The ‘push-pull’ strategy, a novel tool for integrated pest management programs, uses a combination of behavior-modifying stimuli to manipulate the distribution and abundance of insect pests and/or natural enemies. In this strategy, the pests are repelled or deterred away from the main crop (push) by using stimuli that mask host apparency or are repellent or deterrent. The pests are simultaneous...

Integrated-Antenna Push–Pull Power Amplifiers

In this paper, the integrated-antenna concept is applied to push–pull power amplifiers (PA’s). In this approach, the antenna serves as an out-of-phase power combiner and tuned load for higher harmonics. This new architecture effectively has a near-zero loss output hybrid, and results in a high-efficiency PA. The first example is a narrow-band push–pull amplifier integrated with a dual-feed patc...

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

Push vs. Pull in Web-Based Network Management

In this paper, we show how Web technologies can be used effectively to (i) address some of the deficiencies of traditional IP network management platforms, and (ii) render these expensive platforms redundant. We build on the concept of embedded management application, proposed by Wellens and Auerbach, and present two models of network management application designs that rely on Web technologies...

Integrated pest management.

Integrated pest management, in which the conventional pesticides are augmented by one or more nonchemical control practices, has been receiving renewed interest. What is new in this revitalization of an old technique is the careful and more knowledgeable application of a variety of control techniques.