Highlights•Pesticide over-usage has resulted in harmful effects on beneficial organisms
such as parasitoid wasps.•Pesticides can affect parasitoid survival and success either …

Soybean production is usually performed on large scales, requiring simple but efficient pest
management to be successful. Soybean fields are inhabited by several species of …

BACKGROUND The effectiveness of a biological control agent depends on how well it can
control pests and how compatible it is with pesticides. Therefore, we reported the …

Background G1 strain Ganaspis brasiliensis (Ihering) has been recently released in both
Europe and America as a biological control agent of the spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila …

Hormesis for the intractable pests can be dreadful, but for natural enemies of pests, it is a
puissant strategy in optimizing their mass rearing. We report multigenerational stimulatory …

Trichogramma chilonis (Ishii) is an important biocontrol agent that is widely used around the
world to control numerous lepidopteran pests. The overuse of pesticides in agricultural …

Lethal and sublethal effects of pesticides on nontarget organisms are one of the causes of
the current decline of many insect species. However, research in the past decades has …

Lady beetles play a crucial role in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings.
Unfortunately, these insects and more specifically the two-spotted lady beetle (Adalia …

Abstract Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Liviidae), commonly known as the Asian
citrus psyllid, is a prominent citrus tree pest that serves as a vector for Asian huanglongbing …

BACKGROUND The endoparasitoid Cotesia marginiventris (Cresson) is a promising
biological control agent of the fall armyworm (FAW) Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith). Because …