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Check out these insect-related research findings from entomologists across Canada. They’re Field Hero champions doing important work that can make a difference in your crops.
- Insect Monitoring and Control
Flax on the Farm - If this is the future, it can’t come soon enough
Alberta Farmer Express - Spraying not the answer in all cases where crop pests are present, says Field Heroes.
Ag-Matters.com - Biological Control at its Best, Using the T. julis Wasp to Control the Cereal Leaf Beetle
Agriculture and Agri-food Canada - Assessment of potential non-target effects of Tetrastichus julis, a biological control agent of the cereal leaf beetle, Oulema melanopus
BioControl - Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Canadian Prairies
Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands - Biological control programmes in Canada
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Effects of crop rotation and genetically modified herbicide-tolerant corn on ground beetle diversity, community structure, and activity density
The Canadian Entomologist - Carabid assemblages in a rotation of three different crops in Southern Alberta, Canada: a comparison of sustainable and conventional farming
Environmental Entomology - Crop type effects on the activity and distribution of ground beetles
Environmental Entomology - Effect of tillage on ground beetles (coleoptera: carabidae): a farm-scale study in Central Alberta
The Canadian Entomologist - Identification of potential natural enemies of the pea leaf weevil, Sitona lineatus L. in western Canada
Journal of Applied Entomology - Integrating the building blocks of agronomy and biocontrol into an IPM strategy for wheat stem sawfly
Prairie Soils & Crops Journal - Maximizing the value of beneficial insects on the farm: predators and parasitoids
Pest Management Facts, Manitoba Agriculture - Common insect predators and parasitoids in Manitoba
Pest Management Facts, Manitoba Agriculture - Bees on canola – what are the benefits?
Pest Management Facts, Manitoba Agriculture - Identifying agronomic practices that conserve and enhance natural enemies of insect pests of canola
Canola Agronomic Research Program - Biocontrol of canola cutworms: identification and attraction of parasitoids
Canola Agronomic Research Program - Improved integrated crop management with beneficial insects
University of Alberta - Determining arthropod biodiversity in canola cropping systems as a key to enhancing sustainability of production
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