Insect outbreaks pose a major challenge in the management and development of land resources. In cropping systems, these eruptions are frequent as relatively low diversity transient nature agroecosystems hinders trophic regulation herbivores population (Letourneau, 2012). contrast, insect forests characterised mainly by sporadic often spatially synchronous eruptions, resulting from combination a...

summary) Apples: Both SOFT and CONV treatment regimes were able to maintain injury from codling moth (CM) at a very low level across the AWII project, even in the face of increasing CM pressure throughout most of the growing areas of Washington state. CM pressure varied in the AWII project from low-moderate in most blocks to high at two of the orchards (A3 and A5). On average, there was no real...