A team in South Africa is fighting invasive plants with their natural enemies: bugs, the Daily Maverick reported. For example, sustenance farmers in northern KwaZulu-Natal are losing thousands of ...

Release from natural enemies is often cited as a key factor for understanding the success of invasive plant species in novel environments. However, with time invasive species will accumulate native ...

Plants may seem defenseless against insects, having neither hands nor tails to brush them away. But many produce potent repellent chemicals, ranging from ones that just taste or smell bad to ones that ...

Planting flower strips in a field with at least two species can increase the number of natural enemies of pests by 70 percent. The more flower species, the better the effect, according to a new ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The coexistence of plant species in species-rich tropical forests can be promoted by specialised enemies acting in a negatively ...

They may look good in the landscape, but are they, in fact, useful? This is a subject of frequent debate. In recent years, flower strips along fields and ditches have become popular both in Denmark ...