Conservation Biological Control for the Home Landscape

This Fact Sheet outlines conservation biological control practices that can be applied in the home landscape to encourage and protect natural enemies.

Conservation Biological Control | Xerces Society

Conservation biological control (CBC) seeks to integrate beneficial insects back into crop systems for natural pest control.

Biological Control Strategies in Integrated Pest Management (IPM ...

Conservation biological control practitioners often start with manipulating the farmscape or landscape, such as growing insectary plants ...

Natural Enemies in Your Garden: A Homeowner's Guide

Conservation biological control encourages existing natural enemy populations to flourish in the area and suppress pests. This involves reducing ...

Conservation biological control: Improving the science base - PMC

This is expected to be achieved by enhancing natural enemy abundance and functional efficiency through the designing of areas surrounding crops ...

A functional overview of conservation biological control

Conservation biological control (CBC) is a sustainable approach to pest management that can contribute to a reduction in pesticide use.

Conservation Biological Control - Lincoln Landscaping

Conservation biological control (CBC) seeks to integrate beneficial insects back into ecological systems for natural pest control.

Using conservation control to aid your pests' enemies - UAV-IQ

Conservation biological control can be summarized as the set of practices that aim to ensure that natural enemies have a suitable habitat ...

Biological Control: Approaches and Applications

There are three general approaches to biological control; importation, augmentation and conservation of natural enemies.

Conservation Biological Control as an Important Tool in the ...

In the case of birds, their role as biological control agents has been evaluated mainly against insect pests, but also against rodents which can ...

Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape ...

Conservation biological control in agroecosystems requires a landscape management perspective, because most arthropod species experience their habitat at ...

Developing Best Management Practices for Implementing Biological ...

Through this research project, we seek to realize the full potential of biological control in the urban landscape.

Integrating Biological Control into an IPM Program – Wisconsin Fruit

Some common tactics in conservation biocontrol include providing floral resources for nectardrinking biocontrol agents, providing hiding and ...

Pollinator Conservation Biocontrol: Beneficial Insects

Less than 1% of insect species are considered harmful to health, homes, animals, food and landscapes (such as aphids and grasshoppers) (Hill, Dennis 1997 The ...

Conservation tillage mitigates the negative effect of landscape ...

Biological pest control is a key ecosystem service, and it depends on multiple factors acting from the local to the landscape scale.

Conservation biological control of arthropod pests using native plants

Habitat or vegetation manipulation is a strategy within conservation biological control, yet, its formal study is relatively recent and lacking in many ...

Local and Landscape Effects to Biological Controls in Urban ... - NCBI

An alternative form of pest control is conservation biological control (CBC)—a form of ecological pest management—that can reduce the severity ...

Approaches to the Biological Control of Insect Pests - CT.gov

Biological control is the use of living organisms to suppress pest populations, making them less damaging than they would otherwise be.

Measuring What Matters: Actionable Information for Conservation ...

Despite decades of study, conservation biocontrol via manipulation of landscape elements has not become a mainstream strategy for pest control.

Experimental evidence that the effectiveness of conservation ...

Synthesis and applications. ... This knowledge will allow more targeted and cost-effective implementation of conservation biological control ...