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Importance of native vegetation to beneficial insects and its role in reducing insect pest damage in cotton

  • Ingrid Rencken
  • , Letitia Silberbauer
  • , Nicholas Reid
  • , Peter Gregg

Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

Abstract

Conservation biological control is one of the strategies in integrated pest management (IPM.) Its aim is to conserve naturally occurring predators within the agricultural landscape. Modifying the landscape to enhance predator efficiency, referred to as habitat management, is one of the methods used in conservation biological control. Habitat management, until recently has largely been ignored within many IPM programs. Area wide management of pests has changed this perception and there is now a realisation that events outside the crop impacts on events within the crop.
Original languageEnglish
Pages1359-1366
Publication statusPublished - 2003
EventWCRC-3: World Cotton Research Conference 3 - Cape Town, South Africa
Duration: 9 Mar 200313 Mar 2003

Conference

ConferenceWCRC-3: World Cotton Research Conference 3
CityCape Town, South Africa
Period9/03/0313/03/03

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

  • Terrestrial Ecology
  • Crop and Pasture Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds)

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