Over the years, synthetic pesticides like herbicides, algicides, miticides, bactericides,
fumigants, termiticides, repellents, insecticides, molluscicides, nematicides, and …

Sustainable water recycling is an urgent concern, considering water scarcity due to climate
change, and increase water consumption through human activities. In 2015, United Nations …

Insecticides are indispensable for modern agriculture to ensuring crop protection and
optimal yields. However, their excessive use raises concerns regarding their adverse effects …

Zoophytophagous hemipteran predators provide relevant biological control services and
their applications are consolidated in greenhouse pest management. The use of plant …

Agricultural intensification has led to a drastic simplification and homogenization of
agroecosystems, causing biodiversity loss and an increased reliance on chemical pesticides …

Tomato has an economic relevance worldwide but its production is threatened by several
biotic factors, including the invasive South American tomato pinworm Tuta absoluta. The …

BACKGROUND Pesticides can be noxious to non‐target beneficial arthropods and their
negative effects have been recently recognized even at low doses. The predator …

Macrosiphum euphorbiae (aphid) is an important economic pest because it causes
significant damage to several crops, notably on strawberry. The use of natural enemies …

Background Although the pupal parasitoid Trichopria drosophilae is used in conservative
and augmentative biocontrol of Drosophila suzukii infestations, current pest management …

Plant essential oils (EOs) represent a promising alternative and sustainable tool to reduce
the negative environmental impact of conventional management systems, eg, synthetic …