Perrenial flower strips - a tool for improving pest control in fruit orchards
- Pfiffner, L. , Jamar, L. , Cahenzli, F. , Korsgaard, M. , Swiergiel, W. & Sigsgaard, L. (2018). Perrenial flower strips - a tool for improving pest control in fruit orchards. Technical guide. Frick, FiBL, CRA-W, INRA, GRAB, UCPH, SLU, Ecoadvice DK, 1096, 16.
| Type | Book |
| Year | 2018 |
| Title | Perrenial flower strips - a tool for improving pest control in fruit orchards |
| City | Frick |
| Publisher | FiBL, CRA-W, INRA, GRAB, UCPH, SLU, Ecoadvice DK |
| Series title | Technical guide |
| Volume | 1096 |
| Number of Pages | 16 |
| Endnote keywords | conservation biological control, Cydia pomonella, Dysaphis plantaginea, flower strip, functional agrobiodiversity |
| Endnote Keywords | Functional biodiversity, organic farming, flower strip, orchard, apple, aphids |
| Abstract | Orchards are interesting habitats for biodiversity due to their perennial character and their diversified structure. They are potentially attractive for both pollinators and pests’ natural enemies. Diversifying orchards with non-crop vegetation such as flower strips can provide additional opportunities to maintain and develop these populations and thus optimize ecosystem services. Advantages of sown flower strips: • Flower strips in drive alleys enhance the complexi ty of the orchard ecosystem, which is attractive to many species of predators, parasitoids and pollinators. A diversified and complex ecosystem provides better biological pest control. • They provide natural enemies with shelter and food (pollen, nectar, alternative preys) that allow them to maintain their populations within the orchard and to produce more offspring. • The flower strips’ proximity to the crop makes it easier for the predators and parasitoids to reach the pests and thus increase biological pest control, especially for little, mobile species. • Undisturbed ground zones in flower strips promote beneficial arthropods that live on the soil surface such as ground beetles and spiders that feed on pest larvae. |
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| Lien | ISBN Print 978-3-03736-078-1, ISBN Download 978-3-03736-079-8 |
| Authors | Pfiffner, L., Jamar, L., Cahenzli, F., Korsgaard, M., Swiergiel, W., Sigsgaard, L. |
