Wohleb, C.

Carrie Wohleb

Local and landscape-scale conservation of beneficial predators in Columbia Basin Potato Crops

Biological control by naturally-occurring predatory insects and spiders is an ecologically friendly and sustainable approach to pest management. Biological control is often underutilized, however, in part because we know little about how to successfully conserve predators to maximize their impacts on pests. Here, in Washington potato fields, we investigated the effects of planting wildflower insectaries […]