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Practical Resources
- Banking on Bugs [PDF - 433 kB]
- Janet Wallace for Small Farm Canada. 2015
- Banking on Plants as Storehouses
- USDA Agricultural Research Service. 2012
- USDA Agricultural Research Service. 2012
- Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America
- Cornell University
- Biological Control of Insect Pests
- eOrganic. 2011
- Biopesticide and Organic Database for Integrated Pest Management
- Rutgers University
- Rutgers University
- Bt 101
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. 2012
- Building Pest-Suppressive Organic Farms: Tools and Strategies Used by Five Long-Term Organic Farms Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2015
- Canadian Organic Inputs Directory
- Organic Federation of Canada. 2013
- Companion Planting & Botanical Pesticides: Concepts & Resources
- ATTRA. 2016
- Cultural Practices for Managing Insect Pests
- eOrganic. 2010
- eOrganic. 2010
- Directory of Biopesticides in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Countries
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 2012
- Farmscaping: Making Use of Nature’s Pest Management Services
- eOrganic. 2013
- Field Crop and Forage Pests and their Natural Enemies in Western Canada: Identification and Management Field Guide [PDF - 6.7 MB]
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 2015
- Flea Beetle: Organic Control Options
- ATTRA. 2015
- Identifying Syrphid Fly Larvae: Important Beneficial Insects in Controlling Aphids (Video)
- eOrganic. 2017
- Insect-Parasitic Nematodes for the Management of Soil-Dwelling Insect Pests
- eOrganic. 2015
- Management of spotted wing drosophila using organically approved strategies: An update
- eOrganic. 2018
- Management Practices for Control of European Wireworms in Canada [PDF - 298 kB]
- OACC. 2010
- Managing Bad Stink Bugs Using Good Stink Bugs Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2015
- Managing the Soil to Reduce Insect Pests
- eOrganic. 2011
- Natural Enemies 101
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. 2014
- Natural Enemies in Organic Farming Systems
- eOrganic. 2011
- Natural Enemy Field Guide [PDF - 1.3 MB]
- Great Lakes Vegetable Working Group. 2011
- Overview of Monitoring and Identification Techniques for Insect Pests
- eOrganic. 2014
- Proceedings of the Entomology and Organic Agriculture: Ecology in Practice Symposium [PDF - 2.5 MB]
- Société d'entomologie du Québec. 2012
- Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management [PDF - 11.1 MB]
- Cornell University. 2013
- Cornell University. 2013
- Scouting for Vegetable and Fruit Pests on Organic Farms Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2013
- Scouting Vegetable Crops: An Introduction for Farmers (Video)
- eOrganic. 2017
- Spotted Wing Drosophila: Biology, Behaviour and Organic Management
- eXtension.org. 2017
- Stink Bug Management Using Trap Crops in Organic Farming
- eOrganic. 2013
- A Systems Approach for Sustainable Grasshopper Management [PDF - 959 kB]
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 2014
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 2014
Scientific Results
- Agricultural intensification drives landscape-context effects on host–parasitoid interactions in agroecosystems
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2012) 49: 706-714
- Agricultural landscape simplification and insecticide use in the Midwestern United States
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2011) 108: 11500-11505
- Aphid performance and population development on their host plants is affected by weed–crop interactions
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2013) 50: 1281-1288
- An attract and kill tactic for click beetles based on Metarhizium brunneum and a new formulation of sex pheromone
- Journal of Pest Science (2015) 88: 707-716
- Attractiveness of flowering plants for natural enemies
- Horticultural Science (2012) 39: 89-96
- Below- and aboveground abundance and distribution of fungal entomopathogens in experimental conventional and organic cropping systems
- Biological Control (2011) 59: 180-186
- Biodiversity in Organic Horticulture – an Indicator for Sustainability and a Tool for Pest Management
- Acta Horticulturae (2008) 767: 75-80
- Comparison of invertebrate biodiversity in New Zealand apple orchards using integrated pest management, with or without codling moth mating disruption, or organic pest management
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2017) 247: 379-388
- Control of Scaphoideus titanus with Natural Products in Organic Vineyards
- Insects (2017) 8:129
- Control of spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, by specific insecticides and by conventional and organic crop protection programs
- Crop Protection (2013) 54: 126-133
- Cover Crop Species and Management Influence Predatory Arthropods and Predation in an Organically Managed, Reduced-Tillage Cropping System
- Environmental Entomology (2018) 47:340-355
- Crop and field boundary influences on the activity of a wide range of beneficial invertebrate groups on a split conventional/organic farm in northern England
- Bulletin of Entomological Research (2011) 101: 135-144
- Crop cultivar affects performance of herbivore enemies and may trigger enhanced pest control by coaction of different parasitoid species
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2017) 245: 74-82
- Crop pests eaten by bats in organic pecan orchards
- Crop Protection (2015) 67: 66-71
- Decreased Functional Diversity and Biological Pest Control in Conventional Compared to Organic Crop Fields
- PLoS ONE (2011) 6(5): e19502
- Deployment of organic farming at a landscape scale maintains low pest infestation and high crop productivity levels in vineyards
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2017) 55:1516-1525
- Do farming practices affect natural enemies at the landscape scale?
- Landscape Ecology (2015) 30: 125-140
- The effect of fractionated Tagetes oil volatiles on aphid reproduction
- Entomologia Expermentalis et Applicata (2005) 115: 153-159
- The effects of farming system and fertilisers on pests and natural enemies: A synthesis of current research
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2011) 141: 261-270
- Effects of flower attractiveness and nectar availability in field margins on biological control by parasitoids
- Biological Control (2008) 46: 400-408
- Effects of organic and conventional fertilizer treatments on host selection by the aphid parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae
- Journal of Applied Entomology (2012) 136: 445-455
- Efficacy of biopesticides on spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii Matsumura in fall red raspberries
- Journal of Applied Entomology (2018) 142:26-32
- Exclusion of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug from Organically Grown Peppers Using Barrier Screens
- HortTechnology (2016) 26: 191-198
- Generalist predators in organically and conventionally managed grass-clover fields: implications for conservation biological control
- Annals of Applied Biology (2008) 153: 271-280
- Genotypically diverse cultivar mixtures for insect pest management and increased crop yields
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2012) 49: 974-985
- The impact of biological pesticides on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- Soil Biology and Biochemistry (2012) 45: 147-155
- Influence of Winter Cover Crop Mulch on Arthropods in a Reduced Tillage Cucurbit Syste
- Environmental Entomology (2018) 47:292-299
- Insect behavioural ecology and other factors affecting the control efficacy of agro-ecosystem diversification strategies
- Ecological Modelling (2005) 182: 199-216
- Interactions between conventional and organic farming for biocontrol services across the landscape
- Ecological Applications (2013) 23: 1531-1543
- Investigating the effects of crop type, fertility management and crop protection on the activity of beneficial invertebrates in an extensive farm management comparison trial
- Annals of Applied Biology (2009) 155: 267-276
- Linking agricultural practices, mycorrhizal fungi, and traits mediating plant-insect interations
- Ecological Applications (2013) 23: 1519-1530
- Landscape structure influences modularity patterns in farm food webs: consequences for pest control
- Ecological Applications (2011) 21: 516-524
- Local landscape heterogeneity affects crop colonization by natural enemies of pests in protected horticultural cropping systems
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2016) 227: 1-10
- A meta-analysis of physiological and behavioral responses of parasitoid wasps to flowers of individual plant species
- Biological Control (2015) 82: 96-103
- Mixed effects of organic farming and landscape complexity on farmland biodiversity and biological control potential across Europe
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2011) 48: 570-579
- Natural enemy impact on eggs of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), in organic agroecosystems: A regional assessment
- Biological Control (2016) 101: 39-51
- Natural occurrence of fungal egg parasites of root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne spp. in organic and integrated vegetable production systems in Spain
- BioControl (2013) 58: 407-416
- Noncrop flowering plants restore top-down herbivore control in agricultural fields
- Organic Eprints. 2014
- Optimizing field margins for biocontrol services: The relative role of aphid abundance, annual floral resources, and overwinter habitat in enhancing aphid natural enemies
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2015) 199: 94-104
- Organic agriculture promotes evenness and natural pest control
- Nature (2010) 466: 109-112
- Organic and conventional fertilizer effects on a tritrophic interaction: parasitism, performance and preference of Cotesia vestalis
- Journal of Applied Entomology (2011) 135: 658-665
- Organic farming enhances parasitoid diversity at the local and landscape scales
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2015) 52: 1102-1109
- Organic vs. conventional farming dichotomy: Does it make sense for natural enemies?
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2014) 194: 48-57
- Oviposition, adult longevity and temperature effects on the eggs of Tetanocera elata (Fab.) (Diptera: Sciomyzidae): a potential biocontrol agent for slugs
- Journal of Applied Entomology (2014) 138: 670-676
- Pest and disease management in organic farming: implications and inspirations for plant breeding
- Organic Eprints. 2012
- Pest-removal services provided by birds on small organic farms in northern California
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2015) 211: 24-31
- Plant diversity affects behavior of generalist root herbivores, reduces crop damage, and enhances crop yield
- Ecological Applications (2013) 23: 1135-1145
- Plant Volatiles-based Insect Pest Management in Organic Farming
- Critical Reviews in Plant Science (2010) 29: 123-133
- Relative Toxicity and Residual Activity of Insecticides Used in Blueberry Pest Management: Mortality of Natural Enemies
- Journal of Economic Entomology (2014) 107: 277-285
- Toxicity and efficacy of novel biopesticides for organic management of cucumber beetles on Galia muskmelons
- Organic Agriculture (2017) 7:365-377
- Variability in plant nutrients reduces insect herbivore performance
- Nature (2016)
For more information on organic management for pests of a specific crop, please see the relevant pages in the Horticulture and Field Crops sections of this website.
For more information about Organic Science Cluster research on insect management in organic production, please see the following Research Activities:
- OSCII Activity C.25: Organic integrated pest management for grain storage and processing facilities
- OSCII Activity C.27: Evaluation of plant essential oils for protection against blueberry insect pests
- OCII Activity C.30: Development of integrated pest management strategies for new viral biopesticides in organic crops
- OSC Activity D.1: Agroecosystem management for pest control in organic vegetable production