Biological control is widely successful at controlling pests, but effective biocontrol agents are
now more difficult to import from countries of origin due to more restrictive international trade …

Thrips species (Thysanoptera) damage plants by direct feeding and transmitting plant
viruses and are considered one of the most harmful insect pests on crops worldwide. Their …

During the last few years, quinoa, a traditional Andean crop, has been cultivated at low
elevations where pest pressure is high and farmers resort to intensive use of insecticides …

The poinsettia thrips, Echinothrips americanus Morgan (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is a key
pest of various ornamental and vegetable greenhouse crops. As current biological control …

Many insects are drawn to the heat, ash, and smoke produced by forest fires and arrive in
large numbers at recent burns, often while the fire is still active. Some of these insects are …

Vietnam is a large country of Southeast Asia and a globally recognized hotspot of
biodiversity. Until recently, only limited surveys had been carried out on the resident …

Omnivores obtain resources from more than one trophic level, choosing food based on
quantity and quality. They usually engage in intraguild predation (IGP) when prey is scarce …

Learning is a behavioural change based on memory of previous experiences and a
ubiquitous phenomenon in animals. Learning effects are commonly life‐stage‐and age …

BACKGROUND The temperature–size rule is a well‐known example of phenotypic plasticity
in ectothermic organisms. When exposed to colder temperatures, ectotherms develop more …

Alerted by the steady upsurge of thrips infestation that led to drastic leaf-yield losses in
mulberry, we investigated the composition of thrips species damaging the crop in the south …