Agricultural intensification and greater production of Brassica vegetable and oilseed crops
over the past two decades have increased the pest status of the diamondback moth (DBM) …

Entomophagous arthropods can provide valuable biological control services, but they need
to fulfill their life cycle in agricultural landscapes often dominated by ephemeral and …

An increase in pesticide resistance in many pest species is promoting interest in biological
control. Much remains to be learned about natural enemy immigration into and persistence …

Urbanization is a major driver of land cover change worldwide, yet little is known about how
urbanization affects beneficial arthropod communities. This study examined how local and …

There are many reasons why it is important that we find ways to conserve, and better utilize
natural enemies of invertebrate crop pests. Currently, measures of natural enemy impact are …

Recent work in natural enemy nutrition has generated dramatic results, ranging from
parasitoid longevity increasing several‐fold when appropriate nectar is made available to …

Areawide management has a long history of achieving solutions that target pests, however,
there has been little focus on the areawide management of arthropod natural enemies …

Legumes are bee-pollinated, but to a different extent. The importance of the plant–pollinator
interplay (PPI), in flowering crops such as legumes lies in a combination of the importance of …

Exotic invaders are some of the most serious insect pests of agricultural crops around the
globe. Increasingly, the structure of landscape and habitat is recognized as having a major …

In predator–prey interactions, a widely held view is that prey species have higher dispersal
rates relative to their predators and are thereby able to escape from predation by colonizing …