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Issue: Vol. 78 No. 1: 6 Jan. 2026
Type: Editorial
Published: 2026-01-06
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2026.78.1.3
Page range: 4-5
Abstract views: 24
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Preface to “Beneficial insects and mites: their ecology and potential in pest control”

Institute of Entomology, Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosecurity; Scientific Observing and Experiment Station of Crop Pest in Guiyang, Ministry of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China

Abstract

Biological control is again at the centre of sustainable pest management. In many agricultural and horticultural systems, dependence on chemical pesticides is increasingly constrained by development of pesticide resistance, regulatory and market expectations, and the ecological costs of disrupting beneficial arthropod communities...

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