A5057303780- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Forest Management and Policy
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Organic Food and Agriculture
Wageningen University & Research
2014-2024
Institute of Entomology
2018-2020
Rearing insects for food and feed is a rapidly growing industry, because it provides excellent opportunities sustainable approach to animal protein production. Two fly species, the black soldier (BSF) house (HF), naturally live in decaying organic matter (e.g. compost), can thus be effectively reared on rest streams from agricultural industry. The adoption of these as mini-livestock microbially rich substrates, however, requires us address how we safeguard insect health under mass-rearing...
Chemical information influences the behaviour of many animals, thus affecting species interactions. Many animals forage for resources that are heterogeneously distributed in space and time, have evolved foraging utilizes related to these resources. Herbivore‐induced plant volatiles (HIPVs), emitted by plants upon herbivore attack, provide on herbivory various animal species, including parasitoids. Little is known about spatial scale at which attract parasitoids via HIPVs under field...
During the last decade potential of insects for human nutritional protein is increasingly recognised. Direct consumption contributes to a reduction ecological footprint food production and claimed have health benefits. An alternative feeding poultry (broilers layers) with insect-derived protein. This offers several additional advantages, e.g. more extensive use (new sources) organic by-products industry insect production. Implementation People-Planet-Profit (PPP) sustainable way utilising...
Summary Plants have evolved inducible resistance and tolerance mechanisms against insect herbivores. Resistance that affect herbivorous insects directly can be effective generalist herbivores, but will not deter specialist herbivores from attacking the plant. Tolerance indirect plant are more likely strategies used by plants when dealing with However, rarely been investigated within same study system. We studied multiple role of natural enemies in reducing fitness loss Brassica nigra...
Species‐specific responses to the environment can moderate strength of interactions between plants, herbivores and parasitoids. However, ways in which characteristics such as genotypic variation herbivore induced volatiles (HIPVs) that attract parasitoids, affect trophic different contexts plant patch size neighbourhood is not well understood. We conducted a factorial field experiment with white cabbage Brassica oleracea accessions differ attractiveness their HIPVs for context sizes presence...
Abstract Context Tritrophic interactions may be affected by local factors and the broader landscape context. At small spatial scales, carnivorous enemies of herbivorous insects use herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) to find herbivores, but it is unknown whether variation in attractiveness due differential HIPV emission can enhance recruitment carnivores from wider landscape. Objectives We studied parasitism caterpillars butterfly Pieris brassicae on white cabbage was influenced...