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 …

ABSTRACT A key to understanding life's great diversity is discerning how competing
organisms divide limiting resources to coexist in diverse communities. While temporal …

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 …

Biotic stresses are recently evolving very rapidly and posing significant yield losses of maize
production in Ethiopia. A number of high yielding maize hybrids, initially developed as …

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

Plant infestation, stem borer density, parasitism, and parasitoid abundance were assessed
during two years in two host plants, Zea mays (L.)(Cyperales: Poaceae) and Sorghum …

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

As a result of an intense host–parasite evolutionary arms race, parasitic wasps frequently
display high levels of specialization on very few host species. For instance, in braconid …

Simple Summary Crop pest damage is expected to increase worldwide due to global
warming. However, pest insect responses to global warming are complex, and a better …