Biological control has long been considered a potential alternative to pesticidal strategies for
pest management but its impact and level of use globally remain modest and inconsistent. A …

Simple Summary With increasing human populations and the need for ecosystem services
to work in synergy with the production of specialty crops, the maintenance of biodiversity is …

Money spiders (Linyphiidae) are an important component of conservation biological control
in cereal crops, but they rely on alternative prey when pests are not abundant, such as …

Conservation biological control could be an alternative to insecticides for the management
of the aphid Myzus persicae (Sulzer). To develop sustainable strategies for M. persicae …

Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) is increasingly used for diet analyses; however, it may
not always describe diet samples well. A reason for this is that diet samples contain mixtures …

To understand trophic interactions and the precise ecological role of each predatory
species, it is important to know which arthropod and plant resources are used by generalist …

BACKGROUND The complexity of both natural and managed ecosystems involves various
forms of interaction among organisms. Two or more species that exploit the same resource …

Orius predators are important natural enemies of thrips, whiteflies and mites and are reared
as commercial biological agents. Due to the importance of food sources in natural-enemy …

Inter‐and intra‐guild interactions are important in the coexistence of predators and their
prey, especially in highly disturbed vegetable cropping systems with sporadic food …

Despite the dynamic nature of annual cropping systems, few studies have investigated how
the structure of predator communities and their interactions with prey corresponds with crop …