• Can Cover Crop Residues Suppress Pests and Improve Yield in Eggplant? 

  Coffey, Peter Lawson (2018)

  Field studies were conducted over three growing seasons to investigate the effects of planting eggplant following three winter cover crop treatments on the abundance, predation, and colonization of Colorado potato beetle ...

• SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT PREFERENCE, AND SOCIETAL IMPACT OF THE NUISANCE BLACK FLY, SIMULIUM JENNINGSI 

  Wilson, Rebecca Cathleen (2018)

  Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) can cause pest problems through the females’ blood-seeking behavior. Nuisance black flies are managed through area-wide pest management at the larval stage, which necessitates tracking the ...

• FOREST MICRO-HYMENOPTERA, INCLUDING THOSE ATTACKING TREES (CYNIPIDAE OAK GALL WASPS) AND THOSE POTENTIALLY DEFENDING THEM (PARASITIC PTEROMALIDAE) 

  Cooke, Crystal (2018)

  The first part of this dissertation details studies involving an important group of insects attacking oaks, the oak gall wasps (Cynipidae: Cynipini). The second part deals with pteromalid parasitoids involved in thousand ...

• The Effect of Plant Nutrition on the Reproductive Rate and Susceptibility to Malathion of Two Strains of the Two-Spotted Spider Mite, Tetranychus telarius (L.) 

  Henneberry, Thomas J. (1960)

  Studies were conducted to determine the effect of plant nutrition on the reproductive rate and susceptibility to malathion of two strains of the two-spotted spider mite. The two strains of mites used as test organisms are ...

• Effects of post-harvest management practices on the degradation of Bacillus thuringiensis proteins in genetically modified corn residue 

  Johnson, Veronica (2018)

  Most studies addressing the ecological effects of Bt crops have focused on non-target effects during the crop growing cycle. Less information is available on the fate of expressed toxins in crop residue after harvest in a ...

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