Busseola fusca (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is an important pest of maize and sorghum in sub-
Saharan Africa. One century after its first description by Fuller in 1901, inaccurate …

Africa hosts several economically significant lepidopteran cereal stemborer species
belonging to the C rambidae, N octuidae and P yralidae families. The invasive spotted …

Lepidopteran stem borers are among the most important pests of maize in East Africa. The
objective of the present study was to predict the impact of temperature change on the …

Abstract Stemborers (Busseola fusca, Sesamia calamistis and Chilo partellus), the fall
armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) and associated parasitoids constitute an interacting …

The interactions among insect communities influence the composition of pest complexes
that attack crops and, in parallel, their natural enemies, which regulate their abundance. The …

Many parasitoid species are subjected to strong selective pressures from their host, and
their adaptive response may result in the formation of genetically differentiated populations …

To develop efficient and safe biological control, we need to reliably identify natural enemy
species, determine their host range, and understand the mechanisms that drive host range …

Background Climate warming presents physiological challenges to insects, manifesting as
loss of key life‐history fitness traits and survival. For interacting host–parasitoid species …

Basal and plasticity of thermal tolerance determine abundance, biogeographical patterns
and activity of insects over spatial and temporal scales. For coexisting stemborer parasitoids …

This review covers nearly 20 years of studies on the ecology, physiology and genetics of the
Hymenoptera Cotesia sesamiae, an African parasitoid of Lepidoptera that reduces …