supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32150410366,31972338,and32372639);the earmarked fund for China Agriculture Research System(CARS-02-26);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFD1400700);the Special Grant of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2022T150712)。
The mirid bug Apolygus lucorum(Hemiptera:Miridae)is a polyphagous pest that affects a wide range of host plants.Its control remains challenging mainly due to its rapid reproduction,necessitating an understanding of se...
Thanks to Marta Ramirez for technical support,Montse Matas(ADV Baix Maresme)for her support in pro-viding and managing the greenhouses used and Dr.Priscila Gomez-Polo for her suggestions.This study has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness(MINECO)(Projects AGL2008-00546,AGL2011-24349 and AGL2014-53970-C2-2-R).Funding acknowledgment also to the CERCA Pro-gramme/Generalitat de Catalunya.
Development of conservation biological control programs requires the identifi-cation of sources that contribute to predator colonization of crops.Macrolophus pygmaeus(Rambur)(Hemiptera:Miridae)is an efficient polyphag...
financially supported by the Jiangsu Agricultural Scientific Self-innovation Fund,China (CX(15)1057);the Fund of Science and Technology of Jiangsu Province,China (BE2015342);the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFD0200400 and 2016YFD0300706)
The green miridbug,Cyrtorhinus lividipennis,is an important predator of the rice brown planthopper,Nilaparvata lugens.In this study,the selective toxicity of seven commercial biopesticides for C.lividipennis was exami...
Dicyphus maroccanus Wagner and Nesidiocoris tenuis Reuter (Hemiptera: Miridae) are 2 biological control agents in tomatoes. Through the crop seasons, a natural shift in the occurrence of both mirids in favor ofN. t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31093430,30770248);the Tianjin Science&Technology Development Foundation for Higher School(20140606)
A diagnosis of the genus Pachypeltis Signoret, 1858 is provided and one new species, P. micranthus sp. nov., is described from Yunnan, China. Photographs of the dorsal habitus and illustrations of the male genitalia o...
Remote sensing was used in a series of experiments over a three-year period to obtain spectral reflectance data for studying differences in vegetation indices between grasses, broadleaf plants, and grass/broadleaf pla...
Insect source-sink dynamics are vital to ecologically intensive pest management. Maintaining sink plant hosts,or "trap crops",and destroying alternate hosts or breeding places adjacent to the field crop are effective ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31240075);the Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province Education Department(KJ2013A233)
Three species of mirid genus Glaucopterum from China are presented of which Glaucopterum nitrarium sp. nov. and G. shanxiense sp. nov. are described as new. A key toChinese species is offered. Photographs of the dorsa...
supported by the Special Fund for Agro-Scientific Research in the Public Interest, China (201103012);the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB114104)
The genus Adelphocoris(Hemiptera: Miridae) is a group of key insect pests in cotton fields in China that includes three dominant species: A. suturalis(Jakovlev), A. lineolatus(Goeze) and A. fasciaticollis(Reu...
This research is supported by grants from the Special Fund for Agroscientific Research in the Public Interest (Nos. 201103012, 201103022, 201303024), National Ba- sic Research Program of China (No. 2013CB 127600), the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing (No. 6112013), the special Foundation for Scientific Research (No. 2012FY 111100) and the National Natural Science Foun- dation of China (Nos. 1061160186, 31111140015).
The complete mitochondrial (mt) genome of the plant bug, Apolygus lucorum, an important cotton pest, has been sequenced and annotated in this study. The entire circular genome is 14 768 bp in size and represents the...