About one-third of the food produced annually worldwide ends up as waste. A minor part of
this waste is used for biofuel and compost production, but most is landfilled, causing …

In the context of a shift towards pesticide reduction in arable farming, weed management
remains a challenging issue. Integrated Weed Management currently recommends …

The present work, focusing on the theme of food production and consumption in urban
areas, analyses the relationships among three factors: city, human well-being and …

Neonicotinoid insecticides are commonly-used as seed treatments on flowering crops such
as oilseed rape. Their persistence and solubility in water increase the chances of …

Food relationships of Coccinellidae have always been actively studied, largely because of
the economic impact of most coccinellid species. Unfortunately the prey-predator …

Many pollinators and entomophagous arthropods rely on floral food (pollen and nectar) at
some point during their life cycle (Baggen et al., 1999; Pontin et al., 2006; W ä ckers, 2005) …

Continuous availability of food resources, such as pollen, is vital for many insects that
provide pollination and pest control services to agriculture. However, there is a lack of …

Despite the familiarity and economic significance of Coccinellidae, the family has thus far
escaped analysis by rigorous phylogenetic methods. As a result, the internal classification …

Coccinellids and aphids interact in a wide range of agricultural and forest habitats and the
value of coccinellid predation for aphid suppression in these systems varies from a minor …

Background Plants in over one hundred families in habitats worldwide bear extrafloral
nectaries (EFNs). EFNs display a remarkable diversity of evolutionary origins, as well as …