Highlights•Research on native plants use for biological control is recent and mostly in the
United States.•Most studies deal with the provision of flower resources by species of …

Managing agricultural environments in a way that maximises the provision of multiple
ecosystem services is a significant challenge in the development of sustainable and secure …

A major problem associated with agricultural intensification over recent decades has been
the development of insecticide resistance in crop pest populations. This has been a …

BACKGROUND Agricultural landscapes provide resources for arthropod pests as well as
their natural enemies. To develop integrated pest management (IPM) practices, it is …

Vegetated strips are in the focus of many stakeholders of agroecosystems and are part of
several agri‐environmental schemes in Germany. Stakeholders have different expectations …

Double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) represent a promising class of biosafe insecticidal
compounds. We examined the ability to induce RNA interference (RNAi) in the pollen beetle …

Pollination and pest control are two major ecological functions sustaining crop yield. In
insect‐pollinated crops, previous studies have revealed that an increase in resources and …

BACKGROUND Insect pest resistance to insecticides and societal pressure to reduce
pesticide load has increased oilseed rape (OSR) farmers' motivation to protect and exploit …

Global warming can increase insect pest pressure by enhancing reproductive rates.
Whether this translates into yield losses depends on phenological synchronisation of pests …

BACKGROUND This study investigated how infestation rates of an important oilseed rape
pest, the cabbage seed weevil (Ceutorhynchus obstrictus) and rates of parasitization by its …