In many protected crops, augmentative biological control heavily relies on generalist
predators, which continuous presence on the crop allows an early response to pest …

Damage to a host plant caused by insect herbivory and pathogens induces defence
responses in the plant. Defence responses induced by hemipterans are often distinct from …

Insects have been on the menu of humans for centuries, but only recently we have begun to
mass produce them for human food and animal feed. This introduction first paints a synopsis …

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 …

Simple Summary Economical mass rearing of natural enemies is pivotal for their use as
augmentative biological control agents. To this end, the conditions for mass production have …

Cold stress can reduce insect fitness and is an important determinant of species distributions
and responses to climate change. Cold tolerance is influenced by genotype and …

Insect artificial diets are not only an important tool for mass rearing, nutritional research, and
maintaining laboratory colonies but also for studying insect‐plant interactions. For …

The experiment was conducted in the Entomology Laboratory of the Department of Plant
Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Bursa Uludag University in October 2020–May 2021. The …

Nabis stenoferus is a zoophytophagous predator that lives in grasslands around agricultural
fields. It is a candidate biological control agent for use via augmentation or conservation. To …

Eocanthecona furcellata is an important predatory stinkbug that attacks many lepidopteran
pests. For mass-rearing, artificial diets are used to rear this predator in the laboratory; …