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SUBMITTER: Ndakidemi BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9322975 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ndakidemi Baltazar J BJ Mbega Ernest R ER Ndakidemi Patrick A PA Belmain Steven R SR Arnold Sarah E J SEJ Woolley Victoria C VC Stevenson Philip C PC
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Field margins support important ecosystem services including natural pest regulation. We investigated the influence of field margins on the spatial and temporal distribution of natural enemies (NEs) of bean pests in smallholder farming systems. We sampled NEs from high and low plant diversity bean fields using sweep netting and coloured sticky traps, comparing monocropped and intercropped farms. NEs collected from within crops included predatory bugs, lacewings, predatory flies, parasitic flies, ...[more]