There is an urgent need to develop sustainable pest management systems to protect arable
crops in order to replace the current over-reliance on synthetic insecticides. Semiochemicals …

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

BACKGROUND The pollen beetle (Brassicogethes aeneus) is the most abundant pest of
oilseed rape in spring and is potentially one of the most damaging. Adults feed on the pollen …

Selective pressures exerted on the feeding behaviour of animals have been extensively
studied to understand their foraging patterns. In herbivores, specific within‐plant patterns of …

Breeding for plant resistance to insect pests is a classic strategy in integrated management,
but it has never been developed for use against European pests of oilseed rape (Brassica …

Meligethes aeneus, the pollen beetle, is a major pest of cruciferous oilseed crops in Europe.
Two sampling methods for estimating the abundance of pollen beetle adults on Brassica …

Dropleg sprayers apply pesticides below the flower horizon of oilseed rape plants and thus
reduce unwanted side effects on pollinating insects. Whether this technique benefits …

Eucryptorrhynchus brandti Harold is a trunk-boring pest of tree-of-heaven Ailanthus
altissima (Mill.) Swingle in China, and is being studied in quarantine in the United States as …

Biocontrol providing parasitoids can orientate according to volatile organic compounds
(VOCs) of their host's plants, the emission of which is potentially dependent on the …

Generalist insect herbivores feed mainly on one or more primary host species, but unlike
specialists they also accept numerous secondary hosts. This raises the question of how …