The use of biological control agents in Integrated Pest Management programs has
increased in the last decades, but may be affected by antagonistic effects generated by the …

A major obstacle to high-throughput genotyping of microhymenoptera is their small size. As
species are difficult to discriminate, and because complexes may exist, the sequencing of a …

Scale insects (Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea) are one of the most invasive and agriculturally
damaging insect groups. Their management and the development of new control methods are …

Improvements in the biological control of agricultural pests require improvements in the
phenotyping methods used by practitioners to select efficient biological control agent (BCA) …

Scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) are key pests of agricultural
crops and ornamental plants worldwide. Their populations are difficult to control, even with …

Inbreeding depression is a major concern in almost all human activities relating to plant and
animal breeding. The biological control of pests with natural enemies is no exception, …

As human influence reshapes communities worldwide, many species expand or shift their
ranges as a result, with extensive consequences across levels of biological organization. …

Trichogramma are parasitic microwasps much used as biological control agents. The genus
is known to harbor tremendous diversity, at both inter-and intra-speci c levels. The …

Major traits defining the life history of organisms are often not independent from each other,
with most of their variation aligning along key axes such as the pace-of-life axis. We can …

A major obstacle to high-throughput genotyping of micro-hymenoptera is their small size. As
species are difficult to discriminate and because complexes may exist, the sequencing of a …