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Identification of volatiles released by diapausing brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

Nixon, Laura; Morrison, W. R.; Rice, K. B.; Brockerhoff, E. G.; Leskey, T. C.; Guzman, F.; Khrimian, A.; Goldson, Stephen; Rostas, Michael (Public Library of Science, 2018-01-17)

The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, is an agricultural and urban pest that has become widely established as an invasive species of major concern in the USA and across Europe. This species forms large ...

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

Dainese, M.; Martin, E. A.; Aizen, M. A.; Albrecht, M.; Bartomeus, I.; Bommarco, R.; Carvalheiro, L. G.; Chaplin-Kramer, R.; Gagic, V.; Garibaldi, L. A.; Ghazoul, J.; Grab, H.; Jonsson, M.; Karp, D. S.; Kennedy, C. M.; Kleijn, D.; Kremen, C.; Landis, D. A.; Letourneau, D. K.; Marini, L.; Poveda, K.; Rader, R.; Smith, H. G.; Tscharntke, T.; Andersson, G. K. S.; Badenhausser, I.; Baensch, S.; Bezerra, A. D. M.; Bianchi, F. J. J. A.; Boreux, V.; Bretagnolle, V.; Caballero-Lopez, B.; Cavigliasso, P.; Ćetković, A.; Chacoff, N. P.; Classen, A.; Cusser, S.; Da Silva E Silva, F. D.; Arjen De Groot, G.; Dudenhöffer, J. H.; Ekroos, J.; Fijen, T.; Franck, P.; Freitas, B. M.; Garratt, M. P. D.; Gratton, C.; Hipólito, J.; Holzschuh, A.; Hunt, L.; Iverson, A. L.; Jha, S.; Keasar, T.; Kim, T. N.; Kishinevsky, M.; Klatt, B. K.; Klein, A. M.; Krewenka, K. M.; Krishnan, Smitha; Larsen, A. E.; Lavigne, C.; Liere, H.; Maas, B.; Mallinger, R. E.; Pachon, E. M.; Martínez-Salinas, A.; Meehan, T. D.; Mitchell, M. G. E.; Molina, G. A. R.; Nesper, M.; Nilsson, L.; O'Rourke, M. E.; Peters, M. K.; Plećaš, M.; Potts, S. G.; Ramos, D. D. L.; Rosenheim, J. A.; Rundlöf, M.; Rusch, A.; Sáez, A.; Scheper, J.; Schleuning, M.; Schmack, J. M.; Sciligo, A. R.; Seymour, Colleen; Stanley, D. A.; Stewart, R.; Stout, J. C.; Sutter, L.; Takada, M. B.; Taki, H.; Tamburini, G.; Tschumi, M.; Viana, B. F.; Westphal, C.; Willcox, B. K.; Wratten, Stephen D.; Yoshioka, A.; Zaragoza-Trello, C.; Zhang, Wei; Zou, Yi; Steffan-Dewenter, I. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019-10-16)

Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield-related ecosystem services can be maintained by a few dominant species or rely on ...

Bactericera cockerelli (Sulc), a potential threat to China’s potato industry

Olaniyan, Shola; Rodríguez-Gasol, N.; Cayla, N.; Michaud, E.; Wratten, Stephen D. (Elsevier on behalf of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 2020-02)

The potato psyllid Bactericera cockerelli (Hemiptera: Triozidae) has recently emerged as a serious pest of potatoes and other solanaceous crops. It causes direct feeding damage and also vectors Candidatus Liberibacter ...

Preferences of the wheat bug (Nysius huttoni) for particular growth stages of the potential trap crop, alyssum (Lobularia maritima)

Tiwari, Sundar; Saville, D. J.; Wratten, Stephen D. (New Zealand Plant Protection Society, 2019-07-28)

The New Zealand endemic wheat bug, Nysius huttoni (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae), is a pest of brassica seedlings. However, it has a wide host range comprising almost all cultivated brassicas, cereals and many other cultivated ...

Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

Karp, D. S.; Chaplin-Kramer, R.; Meehan, T. D.; Martin, E. A.; DeClerck, F.; Grab, H.; Gratton, C.; Hunt, L.; Larsen, A. E.; Martínez-Salinas, A.; O Rourke, M. E.; Rusch, A.; Poveda, K.; Jonsson, M.; Rosenheim, J. A.; Schellhorn, N. A.; Tscharntke, T.; Wratten, Stephen D.; Zhang, Wei; Iverson, A. L.; Adler, L. S.; Albrecht, M.; Alignier, A.; Angelella, G. M.; Anjum, M. Z.; Avelino, J.; Batáry, P.; Baveco, J. M.; Bianchi, F. J. J. A.; Birkhofer, K.; Bohnenblust, E. W.; Bommarco, R.; Brewer, M. J.; Caballero-López, B.; Carrière, Y.; Carvalheiro, L. G.; Cayuela, L.; Centrella, M.; Ćetković, A.; Henri, D. C.; Chabert, A.; Costamagna, A. C.; De la Mora, A.; de Kraker, J.; Desneux, N.; Diehl, E.; Diekötter, T.; Dormann, C. F.; Eckberg, J. O.; Entling, M. H.; Fiedler, D.; Franck, P.; van Veen, F. J. F.; Frank, T.; Gagic, V.; Garratt, M. P. D.; Getachew, A.; Gonthier, D. J.; Goodell, P. B.; Graziosi, I.; Groves, R. L.; Gurr, G. M.; Hajian-Forooshani, Z.; Heimpel, G. E.; Herrmann, J. D.; Huseth, A. S.; Inclán, D. J.; Ingrao, A. J.; Iv, P.; Jacot, K.; Johnson, G. A.; Jones, L.; Kaiser, M.; Kaser, J. M.; Keasar, T.; Kim, T. N.; Kishinevsky, M.; Landis, D. A.; Lavandero, B.; Lavigne, C.; Le Ralec, A.; Lemessa, D.; Letourneau, D. K.; Liere, H.; Lu, Yanhui; Lubin, Y.; Luttermoser, T.; Maas, B.; Mace, K.; Madeira, F.; Mader, V.; Cortesero, A. M.; Marini, L.; Martinez, E.; Martinson, H. M.; Menozzi, P.; Mitchell, M. G. E.; Miyashita, T.; Molina, G. A. R.; Molina-Montenegro, M. A.; O'Neal, M. E.; Opatovsky, I.; Ortiz-Martinez, S.; Nash, M.; Östman, Ö.; Ouin, A.; Pak, D.; Paredes, D.; Parsa, S.; Parry, H.; Perez-Alvarez, R.; Perović, D. J.; Peterson, J. A.; Petit, S.; Philpott, S. M.; Plantegenest, M.; Plećas, M.; Pluess, T.; Pons, X.; Potts, S. G.; Pywell, R. F.; Ragsdale, D. W.; Rand, T. A.; Raymond, L.; Ricci, B.; Sargent, C.; Sarthou, J.-P.; Saulais, J.; Schäckermann, J.; Schmitt, N. P.; Schneider, G.; Schüepp, C.; Sivakoff, F. S.; Smith, H. G.; Stack Whitney, K.; Stutz, S.; Szendrei, Z.; Takada, M. B.; Taki, H.; Tamburini, G.; Thomson, L. J.; Tricault, Y.; Tsafack, N.; Tschumi, M.; Valantin-Morison, M.; Van Trinh, M.; van der Werf, W.; Vierling, K. T.; Werling, B. P.; Wickens, J. B.; Wickens, V. J.; Woodcock, B. A.; Wyckhuys, K. A. G.; Xiao, Haijun; Yasuda, M.; Yoshioka, A.; Zou Yi (National Academy of Sciences, 2018-08-14)

The idea that noncrop habitat enhances pest control and represents a win–win opportunity to conserve biodiversity and bolster yields has emerged as an agroecological paradigm. However, while noncrop habitat in landscapes ...

Continental-scale suppression of an invasive pest by a host-specific parasitoid underlines both environmental and economic benefits of arthropod biological control

Wyckhuys, K. A. G.; Wongtiem, P.; Rauf, A.; Thancharoen, A.; Heimpel, G. E.; Le, N. T. T.; Fanani, M. Z.; Gurr, G. M.; Lundgren, J. G.; Burra, D. D.; Palao, L. K.; Hyman, G.; Graziosi, I.; Le, V. X.; Cock, M. J. W.; Tscharntke, T.; Wratten, Stephen D.; Nguyen, L. V.; You, M.; Lu, Y.; Ketelaar, J. W.; Goergen, G.; Neuenschwander, P. (PeerJ, 2018-10-19)

Biological control, a globally-important ecosystem service, can provide long-term and broad-scale suppression of invasive pests, weeds and pathogens in natural, urban and agricultural environments. Following (few) historic ...

Plant invasions in New Zealand: Global lessons in prevention, eradication and control

Hulme, Philip E. (Springer, 2020-05)

The number of non-native plant species established outside of cultivation in the New Zealand archipelago is higher than for any other islands worldwide. Faced with this scale of plant invasions, there has been considerable ...

Impact of the biocontrol beetle, Cassida rubiginosa, on the secondary weed target, marsh thistle (Cirsium palustre)

Hettiarachchi, Dilani K.; Cripps, Michael; Jackman, S. D.; Van Koten, C.; Sullivan, Jon J.; Rostas, Michael (New Zealand Plant Protection Society, 2018-07-26)

The folivorous beetle Cassida rubiginosa was introduced to New Zealand to control the weed, Californian thistle (Cirsium arvense). Although Californian thistle is the primary host, many other thistles are accepted hosts. ...