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Managing Floral Resources in Apple Orchards for Pest Control: Ideas, Experiences and Future Directions.
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- Intercropping Flowering Plants Enhances Multiple Ecosystem Services in Apple Orchards.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Impact of Non-Floral Sugar Sources and Feeding Protocols on the Longevity, Reproduction, and Parasitism ofInsects · 2026Article
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- A Decade of Protecting Insect Biodiversity: The Impact of Multifunctional Margins in an Intensive Vegetable System.Insects · 2025Article
- Earwig Releases Provide Accumulative Biological Control of the Woolly Apple Aphid over the Years.Insects · 2023Article
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- Comparing Insect Predation by Birds and Insects in an Apple Orchard and Neighboring Unmanaged Habitat: Implications for Ecosystem Services.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Embedded Sensing System for Recognizing Citrus Flowers Using Cascaded Fusion YOLOv4-CF + FPGA.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A parasitoid's dilemma between food and host resources: the role of volatiles from nectar-providing marigolds and host-infested plants attracting Aphidius platensis.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2021Article
- Towards Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management in Intensive Pear Cultivation: A Case Study from Belgium.Insects · 2021Article
- Towards sustainable performance of urban horticulture: ten challenging fields of action for modern integrated pest management in cities.Journal of plant diseases and protection : scientific journal of the German Phytomedical Society (DPG) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Functional biodiversity is of fundamental importance for pest control. Many natural enemies rely on floral resources to complete their life cycle. Farmers need to ensure the availability of suitable and sufficient floral biodiversity. This review summarizes 66 studies on the management of floral biodiversity in apple orchards, published since 1986. Approaches followed different degrees of intervention: short-term practices (mowing regime and weed maintenance, cover crops), establishment of durable ecological infrastructures (perennial flower strips, hedgerows) and re-design of the crop system (intercropping, agroforestry). Although short-term practices did not always target the nutrition of natural enemies by flowering plants, living conditions for them (alternative prey, provision of habitat) were often improved. Perennial flower strips reliably enhanced natural enemies and techniques for their introduction continuously developed. Resident natural enemies and their impact in pest control reacted positively to the introduction of a more diversified vegetation, whereas the response of very mobile organisms was often not directly linked to the measures taken. A careful selection and management of plants with particular traits exploitable by most natural enemies emerged as a key-point for success. Now the elaborated design of such measures needs to be adopted by stakeholders and policy makers to encourage farmers to implement these measures in their orchards.
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