Establishment of a tree canopy in Cocoa Agroforestry Systems (C-AFS) provides higher carbon stocks and other ecosystem services compared with other agricultural land uses. These systems are eligible for incentive schemes for carbon sequestration but need to be optimally designed to ensure that they...

Candidate biological control agents of invasive insect pests are increasingly being found in new geographic regions as a result of unintentional introductions. However, testing the degree of genetic differentiation among adventive and native-range populations of these agents is rarely done. We used...

The invasive polyphagous pest Fall armyworm (FAW) Spodoptera frugiperda, (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a migratory pest of maize crops in Asia and other countries including Pakistan. It is mostly fed on leaves at the larval stage this pest can be controlled by various types of pesticides globally but...

The fall armyworm (FAW) Spodoptera frugiperda is thought to have undergone a rapid 'west-to-east' spread since 2016 when it was first identified in western Africa. Between 2018 and 2020, it was recorded from South Asia (SA), Southeast Asia (SEA), East Asia (EA), and Pacific/Australia (PA)....

The aggregation pheromone of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), is produced by adult males, and plays an important role in the behavioral regulation of H. halys. However, information on the molecular mechanisms underlying this pheromone's biosynthesis is limited. In this...

The invasive polyphagous pest Fall armyworm (FAW) Spodoptera frugiperda, (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a migratory pest of maize crops in Asia and other countries including Pakistan. It is mostly fed on leaves at the larval stage this pest can be controlled by various types of pesticides globally but...

The tephritid fruit flies are the major pest of horticultural crops, causing severe economic losses globally. The present study was focused on natural enemies' field reservoir (NEFR) technique for providing a safe habitat to the already existing natural enemies of the target pest by manipulating...

Riptortus pedestris Fabricius (Hemiptera: Alydidae) is an economically important pest of soybean that causes serious damage in the Huang-Huai-Hai region of China, which is the main soybean-producing area. However, the basic biological and ecological attributes of the Chinese populations of R....

Potato cyst nematodes (PCN; Globodera pallida and Globodera rostochiensis) are among the most significant pathogens limiting the production of potato globally. Potato cyst nematodes occur in cooler areas of subtropical and tropical regions and temperate regions throughout the world. Both species...

Possibilities to combine augmentative biological control using Trichogramma spp. egg parasitoids and conservation biological control through habitat manipulation, for the management of rice leaffolder and rice stemborer pests have received only cursory mention in the literature. We reviewed...