Advances in Beneficial Insects Research for Conservation Biological Control
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 March 2025 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editors
Interests: conservation biological control; populations of natural enemies and biological control; pest control methods and side effects on natural enemies
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Interests: predatory insects; parasitoids; biological control; integrated pest management; agriculture entomology
Interests: plant protection; arthropod-plant interactions; scale insects
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pest feeding leads to a reduction in the quantity and quality of crops depending on the crop and the causing agent. Pesticides have been intensively used to prevent crop losses, but their use leads to environmental pollution, reduction in biodiversity, higher mortality, or lower fecundity of beneficial insects. Therefore, people are looking for efficient and affordable methods as alternatives to chemical control. Conservation and biological control are essential to increasing environmental biodiversity in urban and agricultural landscapes in order to provide places and resources that protect and enhance natural enemies such as parasitoids and predators for pest control in crop systems.
This Special Issue invites the submission of original research articles and reviews concerning the use of natural enemies in pest control; population dynamics, diversity, abundance, trophic relationships, and increasing the biodiversity of beneficial insects.
Dr. Susana PascualDr. Elżbieta Wojciechowicz-Żytko
Dr. Katarzyna Golan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- predators
- parasitoids
- biological control
- biodiversity of beneficial fauna
- ecosystem services
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