Advances in Research on Parasitoids for Biological Control of Agricultural Pests
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Pest and Vector Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 187
Special Issue Editors
Interests: augmentative biological control; egg parasitoids; stink bugs; soybeans; Telenomus; Trichogramma; IPM
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: pest management; biological control; stink bugs; Pentatomidae; parasitoids; Scelionidae; Tachinidae; Encyrtidae; natural enemy; biological interaction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of biological control tools against insect pests has significantly increased in agriculture globally in recent years. This is especially due to an increasing demand from society for a reduction in chemical pesticides used in food production. Biological control has a crucial role in this regard, both Conservation, Augmentative and Classical Biological Control. Among the biocontrol agents of importance, especially used in Augmentative Biological Control programs, egg parasitoids should be highlighted, not only due to their efficacy and safety but also due to the fact of controlling pests in an early stage of development (egg) before any harm can be caused to the plants. This Special Issue aims to bring the most innovative research in parasitoid use and conservation in agriculture. Strategies of IPM to preserve and increase, as well as opportunities to introduce new parasitoids into the different agroecosystems are welcome.
Dr. Adeney De Freitas Bueno
Dr. Fernanda Cingolani
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Insects is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- augmentative biological control
- conservation biological control
- classical biological control
- parasitoids
- Diptera
- Hymenoptera
- agriculture
- sustainability
- bioinputs
