Abstract Crop Profiles and Pest Management Strategic Plans are two sources of data that describe current historical pest management practices for settings (e.g., agricultural commodities, schools, specialty crops, etc.) in the United States territories. The development documents began 1998 as a response to Food Quality Protection Act ensure collection required registration pesticides. These pri...

Grape growers in California utilize a variety of biological, cultural, and chemical approaches for the management of insect and mite pests in vineyards. This combination of strategies falls within the integrated pest management (IPM) framework, which is considered to be the dominant pest management paradigm in vineyards. While the adoption of IPM has led to notable and significant reductions in...

Many existing pest control models, which control pests by releasing natural enemies, neglect the effect that natural enemies may get killed. From this point of view, we formulate a pest control model with stage structure for the pest with constant maturation time delay through-stage time delay and periodic releasing natural enemies and natural enemies killed at different fixed time and perform ...