Despite their abundance and economic importance, the mechanism of plant resistance to sap-feeding insects remains poorly understood. Here we deploy meta-analysis and data synthesis methods to evaluate the results from ...

Mussidia nigrivenella Ragonot is a pest of maize cobs in West Africa. It significantly reduces maize yields and grain quality, with quantitative losses of 2-25% at harvest, and up to 10-15% indirect losses due to an increase ...

We studied the effect of UV-blocked greenhouses made from netting and plastics on the movement and pest status of three important pest of tomatoes: whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), thrips (Ceratothripoides claratris), and aphid ...