Native to North America, the blueberry maggot fly, Rhagoletis mendax Curran (Diptera: Tephritidae), has historically been considered one of the most important insect pests of commercially grown highbush and lowbush blueberries in many parts of the northeastern and north central United States and Canada. Larval infestation results in unmarketable berries owing to a zero-tolerance policy enforced...

version on a funder's repository at a funder's request, provided it is not made publicly available until 12 months after publication. Co-clustering has been broadly applied to many domains such as bioinformatics and text mining. However, model-based spatial co-clustering has not been studied. In this paper, we develop a co-clustering method using a generalized linear mixed model for spatial dat...

The codling moth Cydia pomonella (L.) (Lepidoptera Tortricidae) is one of the key pests in apple and pear trees and its high harmfulness on the fruits requires a strongly effective pest management. Among the pest control strategies adopted in the years, nowadays integrated pest management (IPM) represents one of the most diffused methods and it requires pest monitoring by means of sex pheromone...

Worldwide, the theory and practice of agricultural extension system have been dominated for almost half a century by Rogers' "diffusion of innovation theory". In particular, the success of integrated pest management (IPM) extension programs depends on the effectiveness of IPM information diffusion from trained farmers to other farmers, an important assumption which underpins funding from develo...

The Lucilia cuprina genetic control program conducted by members of CSIRO Entomology is reviewed. A strategy for reviving interest in area-wide control of this pest is suggested through the development of mass-rearing abilities, leading to the application of SIRM to eradicate the pest from Tasmania. Genetic control methods could be integrated in the SIRM program if appropriate strains could be ...

Pest insects pose a significant threat to food production worldwide resulting in annual losses worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Pest control attempts to prevent pest outbreaks that could otherwise destroy a sward. It is good practice in integrated pest management to recommend control actions (usually pesticides application) only when the pest density exceeds a certain threshold. Accurate ...

Abstract The golden apple snail ( Pomacea canaliculata Lamarck) is one of the main pests rice Oryza sativa Linnaeus) that can be controlled by integrated pest management (IPM). This research aimed to compare population and attack rate snails production using IPM non-IPM. was conducted from April August 2021 in Nagari Koto Tuo Sijunjung Regency, West Sumatera. It used an experimental design comp...

This paper discusses the success of an unintended area-wide integrated pest management (IPM) for Chilo suppressalis in Japan. Chilo was considered as one of the country’s major rice insect pests causing significant yield loss during the pre-war period, along with Scirpophaga incertulas . Chilo population density declined through the years, which was considered to be induced by modern farming te...

Fifty years ago, Stern, Smith, van den Bosch and Hagen outlined a simple but sophisticated idea of pest control predicated on the complementary action of chemical and biological control. This integrated control concept has since been a driving force and conceptual foundation for all integrated pest management (IPM) programs. The four basic elements include thresholds for determining the need fo...