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  • Article
  • Open Access
366 Views
21 Pages

6 November 2025

Effective control of the rosy apple aphid, Dysaphis plantaginea, is crucial for maintaining apple orchard productivity. Understanding plant-mediated bottom-up and parasitoid-driven top-down interactions is critical for developing optimized pest manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,700 Views
12 Pages

23 September 2021

Testing fluctuating rather than constant temperatures is likely to produce more realistic datasets, as they are ecologically more similar to what arthropods experience in nature. In this study, we evaluated the impact of three constant thermal regime...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,283 Views
12 Pages

Hymenoptera Complex Associated with Myzus persicae and Hyalopterus spp. in Peach Orchards in Northeastern Spain and Prospects for Biological Control of Aphids

  • Yahana Aparicio,
  • Rosa Gabarra,
  • Jordi Riudavets,
  • Petr Starý,
  • Željko Tomanović,
  • Korana Kocić,
  • Juli Pujade Villar,
  • Mar Ferrer Suay,
  • Victor Cuesta Porta and
  • Judit Arnó

16 April 2019

Aphids are a serious pest for peach crops. They have traditionally been managed with insecticides, but there is increasing concern about the risk that insecticides pose to both humans and the environment. As a first step to use biological control in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,779 Views
15 Pages

Capsella bursa-pastoris Is a Key Overwintering Plant for Aphids in the Mediterranean Region

  • Serdar Satar,
  • Nickolas G. Kavallieratos,
  • Mustafa Tüfekli,
  • Gül Satar,
  • Christos G. Athanassiou,
  • Nikos E. Papanikolaou,
  • Mehmet Karacaoğlu,
  • Işıl Özdemir and
  • Petr Starý

18 August 2021

The reproduction of aphids depends to a great extent on their host plants, an integration that impacts on the successful expansion of overwintering populations. Therefore, a survey was conducted to evaluate the globally distributed Capsella bursa-pas...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1,016 Views
1 Page

10 February 2022

Citrus fruits are considered, in Algeria, to be a strategic crop, given their importance in food and human health. They attract a phytophagous fauna, as well, as their natural enemies, which are quite remarkable in ensuring natural regulation. A para...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,683 Views
24 Pages

Hymenopteran Parasitoids of Aphid Pests within Australian Grain Production Landscapes

  • Samantha E. Ward,
  • Paul A. Umina,
  • Sarina Macfadyen and
  • Ary A. Hoffmann

8 January 2021

In grain crops, aphids are important pests, but they can be suppressed by hymenopteran parasitoids. A challenge in incorporating parasitoids into Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs, however, is that parasitoid numbers can be low during periods...