Abstract Integrated Pest Management (IPM) provides an illustration of how crop protection
has (or has not) evolved over the past six decades. Throughout this period, IPM has …

Throughout their life cycle, textiles produce 5–10% of global greenhouse gas emissions and
consume the second-largest amount of the world's water with polluting microplastics and …

The Earth's entomofauna seems in an ongoing state of collapse. Insect decline could pose a
global risk to key insect-mediated ecosystem functions and services such as soil and …

Pest management practices in modern industrial agriculture have increasingly relied on
insurance-based insecticides such as seed treatments that are poorly correlated with pest …

The Anthropocene is characterised by pervasive human‐inflicted impacts on a broad range
of biota, including insects. In 2019, we reviewed scientific literature quantifying the …

Invasive species are a prominent feature of global change. Aside from their direct impacts on
biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, invasive crop pests routinely trigger environmentally …

Maize is the most essential crop of China and its productivity has been recently endangered
by the fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda. Chemical pesticides are one of the …

Synthetic pesticides are core features of input-intensive agriculture and act as major
pollutants driving environmental change. Agroecological science has unveiled the benefits …

As a multigene superfamily of Phase II detoxification enzymes, uridine diphosphate (UDP)-
glycosyltransferases (UGTs) play important roles in the metabolism of xenobiotics including …

Simple Summary The structure of agricultural enterprises in the western United States Corn
Belt (large irrigated monocultures, continuous planting of maize, strong aerial pesticide …