Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are social insects and important pests in the urban environment. The main groups of pest ants environment leafcutter house ants. Leaf-cutter cause crescent-shaped defoliation plants, where it causes problems gardens ornamental plants. Domestic human health problems, contaminate food equipment buildings. In this work, we propose an integrated ant management program...

Abstract Pest management professionals aim to answer two primary questions for their customers: 1) ‘Where/What is the pest?’ and 2) ‘How do I kill it?’. These drive at core of any pest program. 2020 was an exciting year entomology research, with much work being done on novel technologies methods detecting controlling pests. The objectives current publication were discuss papers published in tha...

In agroecosystems, local and landscape features, as well as natural enemy abundance and richness, are significant predictors of predation services that may result in biological control of pests. Despite the increasing importance of urban gardening for provisioning of food to urban populations, most urban gardeners suffer from high pest problems, and have little knowledge about how to manage the...

American cockroaches, Periplaneta americana (Blattodea: Blattidae) (L.), are common pests of urban environments. Analyzing spatial distribution of P. americana populations in an artificial, outdoor environment provided insight of gene flow among populations collected in central Texas. This information provides a better understanding of how and if populations were segregated, or if there was a s...