Using low temperature such as aeration to disinfest grains has been often used as a stored
grain management tool because insect development, multiplication, and damage to stored …

Highlights•Physiological performance of field-released insects is of interest to applied pest
management for predicting and enhancing efficacy.•Significant progress in three main …

Insects are highly dependent on ambient temperatures to ensure their biological functions.
Their persistence in the environment and their resistance to unfavourable temperatures are …

This chapter demonstrates how multiple environmental variables can interact to affect plant
and aphid populations and, subsequently, the spread of viruses. Climate and atmospheric …

Although the aphid bacteriome was documented as early as the 1850s, the hypothesis that it
harboured symbiotic bacteria only developed throughout the twentieth century (Buchner …

This chapter considers the effect of drought and temperature (low and high) stress directly
on the aphid and the plant, and the indirect consequences of stress on the host plant on this …

Nasonovia ribisnigri (Mosley, 1841 1841) is the most damaging pest on outdoor lettuce
crops during the summer months. Control measures to ameliorate yield loss are hampered …

Medicinal leeches (Hirudo verbana) thermoregulate with respect to their sanguivorous
feeding behavior. Immediate postprandial preferences are for warmer than their initial …

Background Sugar beet is threatened by virus yellows, a disease complex vectored by
aphids that reduces sugar content. We present an analysis of Myzus persicae population …

Background: Sugar beet is threatened by virus yellows, a disease complex vectored by
aphids that reduces sugar content. We present an analysis of Myzus persicae population …