The alternative use of biological control agents (BCAs) against leaf-cutter ants (LCAs) is in increasingly high demand due to the negative consequences of traditional pesticides. Regarding LCAs, BCAs include entomopathogens that infect them, and mycopathogens that kill the fungi cultivated by these ants. The simultaneous use of multiple BCAs requires that the agents do not negatively affect each other

The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is an important invasive pest that causes serious damage to vegetables in China. Changes in digestive enzyme activities (α-amylase, trypsin, and tryptase) and gene expression levels of F. occidentalis were examined after they were transferred to kidney bean, a preferred host, or broad bean, a less-preferred

In weed biological control programs, the safety assessment of an agent currently relies on no-choice and choice feeding, development, and oviposition cage tests. However, confined conditions restrict insect behavior, potentially producing false positive host-use results that can prematurely disqualify agents, reducing opportunities for successful weed biocontrol. To minimize risks of nontarget attack

This article corrects the following: Silva DB, Urbaneja A & Pérez-Hedo M (2021) Response of mirid predators to synthetic herbivore-induced plant volatiles. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 169: 125–132. https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12970 The authors revise the statistical data analysis. As a result, χ2 and P-values, as well as a few sentences that follow have been revised. The authors also remove

We are sad to announce that Dr. Albert K. Minks passed away on Friday 12 February 2021 in the Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital in Nijmegen, after a short illness resulting from a Covid‐19 infection. Ab Minks (better known abroad as Albert Minks) spent his working life at the former Laboratory for Insecticide Research and the former Institute for Plant Protection (now part of Plant Research International)