A5007455616- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Agricultural Research and Practices
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
Simpson College
2024
Cornell University
2018-2023
Significance Decades of research have fostered the now-prevalent assumption that noncrop habitat facilitates better pest suppression by providing shelter and food resources to predators parasitoids crop pests. Based on our analysis largest pest-control database its kind, surrounding farm fields does affect multiple dimensions control, but actual responses pests enemies are highly variable across geographies cropping systems. Because often not enhance biological more information about local...
Plants can alter nutritional availability, structure, and chemistry of the soil they grow in. These changes positively or negatively influence growth metabolism other plants that co-occur later in conditioned soil. Plant-soil feedbacks could affect community interactions dynamics but also be applied sustainable agriculture to promote plant resistance pests. In this study, we use a maize companion cropping system, commonly known as "push-pull", model investigate soil-mediated effects...
Assessing effects of climate change on agricultural systems and the potential for ecological intensification to increase food security in developing countries is essential guide management, policy-making future research.'Push-pull' technology (PPT) a poly-cropping design developed eastern Africa that utilizes plant chemicals mediate plant-insect interactions.PPT application yields significant increases crop productivity, by reducing pest load damage caused arthropods parasitic weeds, while...
Abstract The seedcorn maggot, Delia platura (Meigen; Diptera: Anthomyiidae), is a polyphagous pest that feeds on decaying organic matter, seeds, and seedlings of several crops, including corn ( Zea mays L.; Poaceae). In soybeans, D . sporadic pest. To make recommendations as to which sticky trap color more effective at trapping D. , we sampled 52 fields in four regions across New York State with blue yellow cards. More adults were caught (77.6 %) than cards (22.4 %). same pattern was...
Abstract The change from predominantly natural to agricultural landscapes has been shown reduce pollination and biological control services also affect the functional traits of insects that provide such services. Research shows increasing area at landscape scale can have variable effects on as body size in predators. Moreover, local factors farm management strategies insects. Studies or are often contradictory temperate regions, absent tropical regions. In Kenya, pest technologies, e.g....
Urban and rural colonies of odorous house ants (Tapinoma sessile) have very different social structures. are large with hundreds cohabiting queens, while small only one queen. To investigate whether worker ant aggressiveness varies across these two colony types, an experiment was performed using aggression assay, in which 50 from each were placed a petri dish allowed to fight. The response the total number dead within 24 hours. Because all same species not marked by colony, per could be determined.
Abstract Farmers looking to maximize ecosystem services often use diversification practices on their fields increase abundance and diversity of insect natural enemies. These affect functional traits enemies such as body size that can play an important role in effectiveness biological control agents. However, landscape features out the farmers might also herbivores, including land surrounding farms. There have been few studies elucidating how complexity local interact traits, ultimately...