A whole ecosystem approach to pear psyllid (Cacopsylla pyri) management in a changing climate

LA Reeves, MPD Garratt, MT Fountain… - Journal of Pest …, 2024 - Springer
Whole ecosystem-based approaches are becoming increasingly common in pest
management within agricultural systems. These strategies consider all trophic levels and …

Temperature and water availability drive insect seasonality across a temperate and a tropical region

LJA van Dijk, BL Fisher, A Miraldo… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The more insects there are, the more food there is for insectivores and the higher the
likelihood for insect-associated ecosystem services. Yet, we lack insights into the drivers of …

Evaluation of Osmia excavata (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) sensitivity to high-temperature stress

Y Song, L Liu, H Cui, W Guo, S Lv, B Ye, L Li… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The population of Osmia excavata, an important pollinator in commercial orchards, has been
in serious decline over recent years. To evaluate the risk of high-temperature stress on O …

Optimizing low-cost sampling of pollinator insects in oilseed rape fields

XY Shi, M Orr, A Luo, MQ Wang, P Guo… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Insects are key pollinators to ecosystem function, but much work remains to determine the
most cost-effective, reliable scheme to monitor them. Pan traps (PT) and flight interception …

Parasitism rate differs between herbivore generations in the univoltine, but not bivoltine, range

Á Gaytán, I Drobyshev, T Klisho, K Gotthard, AJM Tack - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
With climate change, plant-feeding insects increase their number of annual generations
(voltinism). However, to what degree the emergence of a new herbivore generation affects …

Temperature-induced effects on development, reproduction, and predation of Harmonia axyridis fed on first instar larvae Spodoptera litura

Y Islam, FM Shah, A Güncan, A Naeem… - Bulletin of Entomological …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Since metabolism, survival, and reproduction in hexapods are closely related to
temperatures; changes in the mean and variance of temperature are major aspects of global …

Cold storage alters the fat–trehalose trade‐off, decreases the flight ability, and maintains the high survival rate and flight speed of Osmia excavata (Hymenoptera …

Y Song, L Liu, F Ouyang, H Cui, W Guo, S Lv… - Insect …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Osmia solitary bees are important pollinators of various crops worldwide. Refrigeration has
been widely used to synchronize the emergence time of Osmia species from cocoons with …

Spring phenology and pathogen infection affect multigenerational plant attackers throughout the growing season

Á Gaytán, K Gotthard, AJM Tack - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change has been shown to advance spring phenology, increase the number of
insect generations per year (multivoltinism) and increase pathogen infection levels …