Net houses can be used in tropical environments to protect crops such as cowpea against large insect pests, thereby avoiding pesticide treatments while sustainably mitigating the effects of climate change. We investigated a push-pull strategy prevent small pest outbreaks net house. The push component consisted two stimulus plants, i.e. Cymbopogon citratus and Tagetes minuta, pull stimuli visual...

This study was conducted in stone fruit orchards five provinces of the East Mediterranean Region Turkey between years 2009-2011. The aim to determine potential aphid vectors quarantine pathogen PPV (plum pox virus, family Potyviridae) that causes serious yield losses. During surveys, 542 orchard/nurseries were sampled and 6 species (Hemiptera: Aphididae) [Brachycaudus persicae (Passerini,1860),...

Cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV) is an introduced Polerovirus (Family: Solemoviridae) of cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., in the U.S. The only vector known to transmit this cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover; however, there are seven other species aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) reported colonize southeastern U.S.: Protaphis middletonii (Thomas), Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale (Sasaki), craccivor...