Nicolas Desneux

TL;DR: An overview of the traits that have been identified to drive trophic interactions, especially between plants and biological control agents through determining access to floral resources and enhancing longevity and fecundity of natural enemies, and affect the biological control services provided by arthropods are presented.

TL;DR: It appeared that none of the doses of lambda-cyhalothrin, chlorpyriphos and pirimicarb had any effect on A. ervi responses to the odour from the aphid-infested plant, but for triazamate, a significant dose-behavioural response was quantified and attraction to the Odour was no longer significant in females surviving the LD50.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of climate change on crop protection and strategies to reduce the impact of future invasive as well as rapidly evolving resident populations are reviewed, and the major points are the following: (1) the main consequence of climate changes and globalization is a heightened level of unpredictability of spatial and temporal interactions between weather, cropping systems, and pests; (2) the unpredictable adaptation of pests to a changing environment primarily creates uncertainty and projected changes do not automatically translate into doom and gloom scenarios; (3) faced with uncertainty, policy, research, and extension should prepare for

TL;DR: Overall the results showed a high toxicity of acetamiprid on immature stages of E. connexa, demonstrating that this broadly used insecticide could reduce biocontrol services provided by this predator and could also likely disturb IPM programs.

TL;DR: This work evaluates possible resource competition and predator-mediated interactions in a system involving one mirid predator Macrolophus pygmaeus and two pests, T. absoluta and a local whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, on greenhouse tomatoes to emphasize the critical role of generalist predators in managing both local and invasive alien pest populations.