Wasps are notorious predators of agricultural pests, including whiteflies, aphids, moths, beetles and plant lice.

The main agricultural pests, apart from birds, are the pickers themselves.

Highly effective in the control of disease-carrying insects and agricultural pests, the pyrethroids were, and continue to be, of substantial international economic significance.

This so-called sterile insect technique has already yielded success in agricultural pests like fruit flies, and in other bugs that ferry illness from person to person such as tsetse flies.

Only when we are armed with this information can we accurately predict the spread of invasive agricultural pests or disease vectors, like the bloodsucking mosquitoes that even entomologists despise.