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ArticlePeerJ2025

Insecticides may facilitate the escape of weeds from biological control.

Elizabeth K Rowen, Kirsten Ann Pearsons, Richard G Smith, Kyle Wickings, John F Tooker

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5 authors.

Elizabeth K RowenDepartment of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America.
Kirsten Ann PearsonsDepartment of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America.
Richard G SmithDepartment of Natural Resources and Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States of America.
Kyle WickingsDepartment of Entomology, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, Geneva, NY, United States of America.
John F TookerDepartment of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Preventative pesticide seed treatments (hereafter preventative pest management or PPM) are common corn and soybean treatments, and often include both fungicides and neonicotinoid insecticides. While PPM is intended to protect crops from soil-borne pathogens and early season insect pests, these seed treatments may have detrimental effects on biological control of weed seeds by insects. Methods: Here, in two 3-year corn-soy rotations in Pennsylvania USA, we investigated a PPM approach to insect management compared to an integrated pest management approach (IPM) and a "no (insect) pest management" (NPM) control. This was crossed with a grass cover crop to see if this conservation practice can help recover the ecosystem services affected by chemical pest management practices. We hypothesized that PPM and IPM approaches would release weed seeds from biological control by insects but cover crops would increase biological control. We measured the effect of these treatments on the weed-seed bank, mid-season weed biomass, granivorous insect activity-density, and weed-seed predation. Results: We found that, contrary to our hypothesis, planting a cover crop decreased carabid activity-density without consistent differences in weed-seed predation. Pest management and cover crop treatments also had inconsistent effects on the weed-seed bank and mid-season weed biomass, but insecticide use without a cover crop increased the biomass of likely glyphosate-resistant marestail (

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InsecticidesPest Control, BiologicalPlant WeedsWeed ControlAnimalsBiomassCrops, AgriculturalGlycine maxInsectaPennsylvaniaSeedsZea maysInsecticidesCover cropsIntegrated pest managementNeonicotinoid seed treatmentsWeedsWeed-seed predation

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