The present study was carried out at the research field of Department Entomology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh, during tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) growing seasons 2021 and 2022 to evaluate pest management benefit 4 insecticides, viz. Karate 2.5 ec (λ-cyhalothrin), Ripcord 10 (cypermethrin), Marshal 20 (carbosulfan), Shobicron 425 (profenofo...

T United States contains one of the most important crop production areas in the world. According to the most recent national agricultural census, 1.8 billion bushels of wheat, 10.5 billion bushels of maize, and a wide range of other crops were produced in 2006 from 126 million hectares (315 million acres) in the conterminous United States (USDA NASS 2007). However, owing to the concentrated nat...

Pest detection and identification of diseases in agricultural crops is essential to ensure good productivity. The productivity of plants will reduce due to diseases and presence of pests. Image processing can be used to identify the pests and thereby can reduce the use of pesticides. Image processing involves capturing the image and applying various preprocessing techniques and detect the pest ...

Aphids are important insect pests in temperate regions, damaging crop plants by sucking nutrients from the phloem and by transmitting plant viruses [1]. Chemical control of certain aphid species is becoming extremely difficult due to resistance to insecticides [2]. In this context, the development of novel pest control products that specifically target aphids is highly desirable. To this end, w...

Vegetable crops hold a key position in agricultural production worldwide, and the Asian regions such as East, Southeast and South are among the top regions for their exports and imports. However, many pests and diseases threaten the profitability of this agricultural sector, and improving the productivity and quality of vegetables can enhance food security, employment and trade opportunities. F...

Modern restructuring of agricultural landscapes, due to the expansion of monocultures and the resulting elimination of non-crop habitat, is routinely blamed for rising populations of agricultural insect pests. However, landscape studies demonstrating a positive correlation between pest densities and the spatial extent of crop monocultures are rare. We test this hypothesis with a data set from 1...

Cakchiquel farmers in Patzún, Guatemala stated that pest populations have increased in corn crops since they abandoned organic fertilization and adopted synthetic fertilizers. Given the dearth of scientific information about the effects of fertilization practices on pests, a controlled experiment was performed to elucidate these interactions. Pests, their natural enemies, and nutritional status...

The indiscriminate use of broad-spectrum insecticides has caused major problems with pest resistance, residues in food, environmental contamination, outbreaks of secondary pests, and reductions in populations of beneficial insects. This results in increased demands for pest control methods that are both efficient and friendly to the environment. The sterile insect technique (SIT), applied as pa...

It is particularly important for the development of agriculture to strengthen the agricultural pests monitoring, prevention and cure. The traditional methods of remote sensing (RS) for agricultural pests monitoring cannot meet the needs of agricultural development, because of their long time-consuming, high cost, and low accuracy. However, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing, as a new ...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Pest detection in plants and crops is essential for production of good quality food, improved quality of life and a stable agricultural economy. Excessive use of pesticides for pest control is harmful to plants, animals as well as human beings. Dig...