The need to reduce pollinator exposure to harmful pesticides has led to calls to expedite the
adoption of integrated pest management (IPM). We make the case that IPM is not explicitly …

Companion planting is a well-known strategy to manage insect pests and support a natural
enemy population through vegetative diversification. Trap cropping is one such type of …

BACKGROUND The tea green leafhopper, Empoasca flavescens is the most important pest
in Chinese tea plantations. For decades its control has been executed almost exclusively …

Ephemeral cropping systems are characterized by frequent disturbances of ecological
processes, which may compromise the conservation of plant and arthropod diversity and the …

Small-scale farms are an important component of agricultural production even in developed
economies, and have an acknowledged role in providing other biological and societal …

Within biodiversity‐ecosystem function research, a major outstanding question is how
herbivory, a critical ecosystem function at the base of the food web, changes along gradients …

Abstract Lygus bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae) can damage economically important crop plants
by feeding on their active growing points, such as the apical meristem and buds, and …

The invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, poses significant risk to
organic farming systems because they rely on biological control, nonsynthetic inputs, and …

Greenhouse ornamentals are part of a 55 billion USD global ornamentals industry. They
present one of the greatest challenges to integrated pest and disease (IPDM) management …

Trap cropping may exploit a pest's dispersal and host selection behavior in order to protect a
desired crop. Here, we used a combination of visual sampling, immunomarking, and …