A new study from Kiel University shows how the massive exchange of mobile genetic elements between fungi can impair their ...

© ANP / Tom van Limpt Biological pest control was used in 94 percent of greenhouse crop cultivation in 2024 (by cultivated area). That was around the same as in 2020 ...

An international team of scientists, involving entomologists, conservation biologists, agro-ecologists and geographers, has just revealed how on-farm biological control can slow the pace of tropical ...

BIOLOGICAL control as a supplement to chemical control of insect pests was discussed by the first -named author in an article in Nature in 1944 1. It was shown that there was a practical possibility ...

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that the circadian rhythms or biological "clocks" in some insects can make them far more susceptible to pesticides at some times of the day ...

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Biological pest control uses natural enemies to reduce populations of invasive species. Biological weed control uses living organisms to suppress growth of noxious weeds or those that meet at least ...

THE control of insect pests by means of parasites and predators appeals to the biologist and the general public alike. The biologist sees in the method the practical application of scientific ...

Researchers have shown how nematodes use smell to seek out uninfected insects, which they then enter and kill. The findings support the group's long-term goal of improving how gardeners and the ...

Researchers from INRA, CIRAD, CEA, the University of Montpellier, and Chicago and Vanderbilt Universities in the United States have developed an innovative method for analyzing the genome of the ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that the circadian rhythms or biological "clocks" in some insects can make them far more susceptible to pesticides at some ...

Parasitoids and predators / David B. Off and Charles P.-C. Suh -- Microbial insecticides / J. Lindsey Flexner and Diane L. Belnavis -- Pheromones and other semiochemicals / D.M. Suckling and G. Karg - ...