Does floral nectar improve biological control by parasitoids

By G. Heimpel, M. Jervis. 2005

277 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Felix L. Wäckers
2. S. Wratten
3. G. Heimpel
4. Jana C. Lee
5. G. Gurr
6. D. Landis
7. M. Jonsson
8. D. Andow

In Insect Science

1. Felix L. Wäckers
2. S. Wratten
3. G. Heimpel
4. G. Gurr
5. Jana C. Lee
6. D. Landis
7. M. Jonsson
8. D. Andow

In Plant Science

1. S. Wratten
2. G. Heimpel
3. Felix L. Wäckers
4. G. Gurr
5. Jana C. Lee
6. D. Andow
7. D. Landis
8. M. Jonsson

Citations in the corpus

• Floral Host Plants of Syrphidae and Tachinidae (Diptera) of Central Illinois (2006, background): “Nutritionaldependenceonßoral resources suggests that syrphids and tachinids could be encouraged to regulate herbivorous pests by manipulating plant communities to provide the appropriate ßowering plant species (reviewed by Landis et al. 2000, Heimpel and Jervis 2005).”
• Management of field margins to maximize multiple ecological services (2006, background): “2005; Heimpel & Jervis 2005).”
• Beyond nectar provision: the other resource requirements of parasitoid biological control agents (2016, background): “…is when the presence of one herbivore increases the predation/parasitism risk for a second herbivore species via shared natural enemies (Holt, 1977), and agricultural management can manipulate such indirect interactions through the provision of alternative non-pest hosts (Heimpel & Jervis, 2005).”
• The impact of adult diet on parasitoid reproductive performance (2017, background): “Although different nutritional sources generally alter parasitoid fecundity, this is not the case of the encyrtid A. papayae, which can equally benefit from honey solution, as well as from a honey and yeast extract diet, dried grape extract and fructose solution (Divya et al. 2011).”
• Influence of floral resources on sugar feeding and nutrient dynamics of a parasitoid in the field (2006, background): “This study demonstrates that, as found with other parasitoids ( Casas et al. , 2003; Heimpel & Jervis, 2005 ), D. insulare commonly feed on sugar in the field, and suggests that floral resources were probably utilised by D. insulare foraging in adjacent crops.”
• Using selective food plants to maximize biological control of vineyard pests (2006, background): “Research in a variety of agro-ecosystems has shown that many adult parasitoids use nectar and/or pollen as a food and this is an important consideration for biological control (Landis, Wratten & Gurr 2000; Lee & Heimpel 2004; Heimpel & Jervis 2005).”
• Habitat manipulation to mitigate the impacts of invasive arthropod pests (2010, background): “Another well-known type of habitat management to conserve natural enemies is the sowing of flower strips to provide nectar and pollen as food sources for natural enemies (Pfiffner and Wyss 2004; Gurr et al. 2005; Heimpel and Jervis 2005).”
• Recent advances in conservation biological control of arthropods by arthropods (2008, background): “…food sprays and shelter habitats can increase natural enemy abundance, diversity and fitness, few have found that this leads to decreased pest damage, increased crop yield and greater profit for farmers (Heimpel and Jervis, 2005; Cullen et al., 2008; Griffiths et al., 2008; Wade et al., 2008b).”