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Creator:: Marti, Santiago Marti
Abstract:: The biology and behavior of the codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.), was studied to determine factors responsible for differences in susceptibility to moth damage among apple and pear cultivars. In release experiments, codling moth adults were intercepted in significantly greater numbers in host (apple, pear) than in non-host (maple) trees,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: relationships between a pest and its hosts is important for optimal management. This is also true for codling

Creator:: Russell, Michael C.
Abstract:: Conservation biological control involves manipulating farm landscapes or management systems to enhance populations of beneficial predators of agricultural pests. Farmscaping is one aspect of conservation biological control where predators of important pests are identified, the availability on the farm landscape of resources and habitat components needed by the beneficials to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: herbaceous non-crop vegetation, both trees and other crop species can positively impact pest management

Creator:: Colley, Micaela Ruth
Abstract:: Five field experiments were conducted to evaluate the relative attractiveness of potential beneficial insectary plants to aphidophagous hover flies and parasitic Hymenoptera and the effectiveness of interplanting selected flowering plants in a broccoli field to enhance biocontrol of the cabbage aphid and green peach aphid. In 1996 we established a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: References Altieri, M. A. 1994. Biodiversity and Pest Management in Agroecosystems. The Hawthorn Press. NY

Creator:: Schooler, Shon
Abstract:: In the first part of this study we monitored the development of biological control of purple loosestrife Lythrum salicaria over a six-year period at Morgan Lake in western Oregon. In 1992, two beetles, Galerucella pusilla and G. calmariensis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), were released to control the wetland weed at this test...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: at Morgan Lake in western Oregon. In 1992, two beetles, Galerucella pusilla and G. calmariensis

Creator:: Parreira, Stephanie
Abstract:: Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are responsible for approximately $17 billion in crop production per year in the United States, and are arguably the most important pollinators in the nation. The future of crop pollination and production is threatened by widespread national honey bee colony losses, which have averaged approximately 30%...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: be a critical form of disease resistance in honey bee colonies, and adverse impacts of pesticide

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