A major project funded by CSIRO to better understand pest suppressive landscapes is coming to finality. On this program we look at some of the preliminary findings.
New research indicates that growers could benefit from ‘looking beyond the paddock’ for insect pest management, and that remnant native vegetation may be another tool for the control of insect pests in grain crops.
Environments that favour the movement of beneficial insects into crops could help in the fight against invertebrate pests Research findings from Queensland’s Darling Downs have shown that grain crops near native remnant vegetation contain more beneficial insects than those that are remote from native vegetation.