Culture control in crop fields: A habitat management technique

Mayse, Mark A.

doi:10.1007/bf01867036

Cited by 11 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 32 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Trap plants are stands of plants that attract further pests and may keep them away from the main crop [ 36 , 37 , 38 ]. The use of trap plants in association with crops has been known for centuries to protect crops from insect attack, and this method has been exploited in many traditional farming systems [ 30 , 39 , 40 ].…”

Section: Trap Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Companion Plants for Aphid Pest Management

Ben-Issa

Gomez

Gautier

2017

Insects

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A potential strategy for controlling pests is through the use of “companion plants” within a crop system. This strategy has been used in several trials to fight against a major crop insect pest: the aphid. We reviewed the literature to highlight the major mechanisms by which a companion plant may act. Trials carried out under laboratory or field conditions revealed that companion plants operate through several mechanisms. A companion plant may be associated with a target crop for various reasons. Firstly, it can attract aphids and draw them away from their host plants. Secondly, it can alter the recognition of the host plant. This effect is mostly attributed to companion plant volatiles since they disturb the aphid host plant location, and additionally they may react chemically and physiologically with the host plant, making it an unsuitable host for aphids. Thirdly, it can attract natural enemies by providing shelter and food resources. In this review, the feasibility of using companion plants is discussed. We conclude that many factors need to be taken into account for a successful companion plant strategy. For the best long-term results, companion plant strategies have to be combined with other alternative approaches against aphids.

show abstract

Section: Trap Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Companion Plants for Aphid Pest Management

Ben-Issa

Gomez

Gautier

2017

Insects

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In recent years, plant diversity and the way it influences pest population dynamics have been widely researched [11,[13][14]. This is partly due to the effects of residual insecticides that impel researchers to search for ways of controlling pests by using alternative biological and horticultural methods [12,[15][16][17]. The objective of our study was to compare the differences in the populations of natural enemy insects in jujube orchards interplant with pasture and no pasture.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Structure Differences of the Natural Insect Enemy Complex between Jujube Orchards Intercropped with Pasture and No Pasture

Wang¹,

GuangLu²,

Liu³

et al. 2009

2009 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The communities and diversity of the beneficial insects on jujube trees were studied in jujube sites intercropped with pasture in Taigu, Shanxi province of China. The results showed that 8 orders, 25 families, 64 species and 5112.33±30.65 individuals of insect natural enemies were found in the jujube sites intercropped with pasture site, while the corresponding numbers were 8, 35, and 3126.33±23.36 in the jujube sites without pasture. The intercropped pasture site had significantly (P < 0.05) more beneficial insects than the non-intercropped site. The dominant species were Inocellia sp., Coccinella septempunctata, Chrysopa shansiensis, and Anysis saissetiae. The diversity and the evenness of the beneficial insect community in the intercropped site were significantly higher (P < 0.05) than those in the non-pasture sites. There were significantly smaller (P < 0.05) infestation rates of the fruit borers and significantly higher (P < 0.05) parasitism rates of the fruit borers in jujube orchards intercropped with pastures than that of no pastures in jujube orchards. Significantly greater (P < 0.05) net income was recorded from the treatments with pastures than the no pastures in jujube orchards. The results suggested that the structures and functions of beneficial insects were improved in the jujube sites intercropped with pasture than in the jujube sites without pasture.

show abstract

Landscape Diversity Influences Dispersal and Establishment of Pest with Complex Nutritional Ecology

Ferreira

Esteva

Godoy³

et al. 2014

Bull Math Biol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We studied the effects of landscape structure on species with resource nutritional partition between the immature and adult stages by investigating how food quality and spatial structure of a landscape may affect the invasion and colonization of the insect pest, Diabrotica speciosa. To this end, we formulated two bidimensional stochastic cellular automata, one for the insect immature stage and the other for the adult stage. The automata are coupled by adult oviposition and emergence. Further, each automata site has a specific culture type, which can affect differently the fitness attributes of immatures and adults, such as mortality, development and oviposition rates. We derived the mean-field approximation for these automata model, from which we obtained conditions for insect invasion. We ran numerical simulations using entomological parameters obtained from laboratory experiments (using bean, soybean, potato, and corn crops), and we compared the results of the automata with the ones given by the mean-field approximation. Finally, using artificially generated landscapes, we discussed how the structured heterogeneous landscape can affect dispersal and establishment of insect populations.

show abstract

Culture control in crop fields: A habitat management technique

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Companion Plants for Aphid Pest Management

Companion Plants for Aphid Pest Management

Structure Differences of the Natural Insect Enemy Complex between Jujube Orchards Intercropped with Pasture and No Pasture

Landscape Diversity Influences Dispersal and Establishment of Pest with Complex Nutritional Ecology

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About