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Miha Curk and Stanislav Trdan
Biological control, a well-established plant protection method, has garnered substantial attention in recent decades. Various approaches, including biological control agents (BCA), catch crops, biofumigation, sticky traps, and pheromones, have been exten...
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Josué Castañeda Cisneros, Saul E. Pomares Hernandez, Jose Roberto Perez Cruz, Lil María Rodríguez-Henríquez and Jesus A. Gonzalez Bernal
In recent years, aerial vehicles have allowed exploring scenarios with harsh conditions. These can conduct reconnaissance tasks in areas that change periodically and have a high spatial and temporal resolution. The objective of a reconnaissance task is t...
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Katarzyna Golan, Izabela Kot, Katarzyna Kmiec and Edyta Górska-Drabik
Insect pests have major effects on agricultural production and food supply. Pest control in conventional crop management in orchards is mainly based on agrochemicals, which entails economic, health and environmental costs. Other approaches, such as biolo...
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David Jack,John McLean,Gordon Weetman
Research is currently under way in the Southern Interior Forest Region to determine whether nitrogen fertilization can be used to increase mature lodgepole pine trees' natural defences against the mountain pine beetle (MPB) and thereby reduce the impact ...
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Zheping Yan, Weidong Liu, Wen Xing and Enrique Herrera-Viedma
How an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) performs fully automated task allocation and achieves satisfactory mission planning effects during the search for potential threats deployed in an underwater space is the focus of the paper. First, the task assi...
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Lingyun Gao, Ran Yan, Wei He and Kongming Wu
The rice leaf folder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, is a significant migratory pest that restricts rice production in Asia and Africa, and monitoring and early warning measures are the basis for its management. Based on its regional migratory path in China, ...
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Nikola Ivkovic, Robert Kudelic and Marin Golub
Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a well-known class of swarm intelligence algorithms suitable for solving many NP-hard problems. An important component of such algorithms is a record of pheromone trails that reflect colonies? experiences with previously ...
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Tracy L. Stepien, Cole Zmurchok, James B. Hengenius, Rocío Marilyn Caja Rivera, Maria R. D?Orsogna and Alan E. Lindsay
Male and female moths communicate in complex ways to search for and to select a mate. In a process termed calling, females emit small quantities of pheromones, generating plumes that spread in the environment. Males detect the plume through their antenna...
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Ahmad Pervez, Meena Yadav
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We review the foraging behaviour of predaceous ladybirds in the light of current knowledge. Ladybirds should forage optimally to maximise their resources; however, they are limited ? among other things ? by their poor visual acuity. Ladybird foraging beh...
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Tomislav Curkovic, Catalina Ferrera
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Callisphyris apicicornis is a fruit pest of increasing concern in Chile. To aid in the identification of its sex pheromone for use in the management of this insect, ?calling? (pheromone release) of females and ?orientation and searching? behaviors of ...
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