This study focuses on interacting with insects and their ectosymbiont (lato sensu)
microorganisms for environmentally safe plant production and protection. Some cases help …

Mediterranean olive cultivation faces challenges in the global environmental change
context. Pests and diseases caused by arthropods such as Bactrocera oleae, Prays oleae …

Insects are often associated with symbiotic micro‐organisms, which allow them to utilize
nutritionally marginal diets. Adult fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) associate with extracellular …

The Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata, is a pest of worldwide substantial
economic importance, as well as a Tephritidae model for sterile insect technique (SIT) …

In the English edition of his landmark book Endosymbiosis of Animals with Plant
Microorganisms (1965), Professor Paul Buchner, probably the most prominent founder of …

BACKGROUND The olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae (Rossi)(OLF) is a major agricultural pest,
whose control primarily relies on the use of chemical insecticides. Therefore, development of …

The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the most destructive pest of olive orchards worldwide.
The monophagous larva has the unique capability of feeding on olive mesocarp, coping with …

Insect-symbiont interactions are receiving much attention in the last years. Symbiotic
communities have been found to influence a variety of parameters regarding their host …

The microbiome of the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Gmelin), a worldwide pest of olives
(Olea europaea L.), has been examined for> 100 yr as part of efforts to identify bacteria that …

The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi)(Diptera: Tephritidae), is the major insect pest of
olive orchards (Olea europaea L.), causing extensive damages on cultivated olive crops …