🪲🌾 New #BAAE article: Prey toughness shapes pest control in cereal fields 🌿
Hard-bodied pests face fewer attacks than soft prey, while abundant carabids drive most predation. Promoting predator diversity is key for stronger biological control. 🐛
DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
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Insect pests vary in size and toughness across species and life stages, and are attacked to varying degrees by different predators. Feeding experiment…