期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (1)
The South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), has invaded most Afro-Eurasian countries and is threatening wor......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (3)
Silicon (Si) enhances rice resistance to various insect herbivores. However, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Whereas the salicylic acid (SA)......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (3)
Low winter temperatures severely stress newly arriving insect species. Adaptive evolutionary changes in cold tolerance can facilitate their establishm......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (1)
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a naturally occurring entomopathogenic soil bacterium, has been the active ingredient of sprayable Bt biopesticides for o......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (2)
Banker plants increase biological pest control by supporting populations of non-pest arthropod species, used as alternative hosts or prey by natural e......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (2)
Liriomyza sativae Blanchard and Liriomyza trifolii (Burgess) are two highly polyphagous pests that successively invaded China in the 1990s and 2000s, ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (3)
Evolution of the spread strategies of plant pathogens may be described using the vector manipulation hypothesis (VMH), which posits that pathogens can......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (2)
Herbivores use plant chemicals for host plant selection to maximize their own and/or offspring performance. Since host plants that are optimal for mot......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (1)
Excessive mineral fertilizer input results in little extra yield but exacerbates insect herbivory and affects environmental health and ecosystem servi......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (1)
Many predatory coccinellids conflict with hemipteran tending ants, because they both use hemipterans as resources. Lady beetles are important in the e......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (1)
The development of resistance to mosquitocides highlights the need for new insecticides that can be incorporated into a rational resistance management......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (2)
Sulfoxaflor, a novel sulfoximine insecticide, has been widely used to control sucking insect pests. In order to investigate the resistance mechanisms ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (2)
Characterizing the olfactory responses of insect pests is critical for developing biological control options and pest management strategies in the fie......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (3)
Bemisia tabaci is an important pest affecting agricultural and horticultural crops worldwide and comprises a complex of cryptic species. In China, the......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE, 2022; 95 (2)
The absence of natural enemies in newly invaded areas is a key factor in the successful invasion of alien species. Whether a specific parasitoid can b......