The importance of dispersal in biological control and IPM
Author: Vincent P. Jones, Jay F. Brunner, Tom Unruh, Dave Horton
Published: 2006
Summary: Determine the contribution of the orchard ground cover to natural enemy populations and biological control that occur in pear trees. This year a number of marking techniques were attempted, beyond what we tried in the previous years. These new techniques were aimed at expanding our previous studies and attempting to make sure that there were no problems with drift. There were no rain events during any of the experiments reported below, and under-tree irrigation (low pressure emitters) was applied only on the weekends after the week’s samples had already been collected.
