Latest Research

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
  University of Alberta