INSECT CONTROL AGENTS

Lucy ALFORD , AT Julian , Shireen A DAVIES , Ronald J Nachman

2020
Entomopathogenic fungi based microbial insecticides and their physiological and biochemical effects on Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith)

Perumal Vivekanandhan , Kannan Swathy , Alford Lucy , Pittarate Sarayut
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 13 1254475 -1254475

10
2023
MIMETIC ANALOGS OF INSECT NEUROPEPTIDES: RATIONAL TOOLS IN DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL PEST MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Ronald Nachman , Lucy Alford , Richard Marley , Shireen Davies
29th Conference of European Comparative Endocrinologists (CECE2018)., Date: 2018/08/19 - 2018/08/22, Location: Glasgow (UK)

2018
Assessment of neuropeptide binding sites and the impact of biostable kinin and CAP2b analogue treatment on aphid (Myzus persicae and Macrosiphum rosae) stress tolerance

Lucy Alford , Richard Marley , Anthony Dornan , Jean‐Sébastien Pierre
Pest Management Science 75 ( 6) 1750 -1759

7
2019
Desiccation, thermal stress and associated mortality in Drosophila fruit flies induced by neuropeptide analogue treatment

Lucy Alford , Richard Marley , Anthony Dornan , Julian A. T. Dow
Journal of Pest Science 92 ( 3) 1123 -1137

7
2019
Comparing thermal tolerance across contrasting landscapes: first steps towards understanding how landscape management could modify ectotherm thermal tolerance

Kévin Tougeron , Joan van Baaren , Françoise Burel , Lucy Alford
Insect Conservation and Diversity 9 ( 3) 171 -180

24
2016
Could Behaviour and Not Physiological Thermal Tolerance Determine Winter Survival of Aphids in Cereal Fields?

Lucy Alford , Thiago Oliveira Andrade , Romain Georges , Françoise Burel
PLoS ONE 9 ( 12) e114982

16
2014
Effect of interference and exploitative competition on associative learning by a parasitoid wasp: a mechanism for ideal free distribution?

Hossein Kishani Farahani , Yasaman Moghadassi , Lucy Alford , Joan van Baaren
Animal Behaviour 151 157 -163

3
2019
Potential Host Manipulation by the Aphid Parasitoid Aphidius avenae to Enhance Cold Tolerance

Lucy Alford , Annabelle Androdias , Thomas Franco , Jean-Sébastien Pierre
PLOS ONE 11 ( 12) e0168693

7
2016
Flowering cover crops in winter increase pest control but not trophic link diversity

Maxime Damien , Cécile Le Lann , Nicolas Desneux , Lucy Alford
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 247 418 -425

18
2017
Early life nutritional quality effects on adult memory retention in a parasitic wasp

Hossein Kishani Farahani , Ahmad Ashouri , Arash Zibaee , Pouria Abroon
Behavioral Ecology 28 ( 3) 818 -826

3
2017
Improving methods to measure critical thermal limits in phloem-feeding pest insects

Lucy Alford , Françoise Burel , Joan van Baaren
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 159 ( 1) 61 -69

8
2016
Measuring the evolutionary potential of a winter-active parasitic wasp to climate change.

Lucy Alford , Philippe Louâpre , Florence Mougel , Joan van Baaren
Oecologia 194 ( 1) 41 -50

2020
Thermal activity thresholds of the predatory mirid Nesidiocoris tenuis : implications for its efficacy as a biological control agent

Gwennan E. Hughes , Lucy Alford , Guido Sterk , Jeffrey S. Bale
Biocontrol 55 ( 4) 493 -501

20
2010
Why is there no impact of the host species on the cold tolerance of a generalist parasitoid

Lucy Alford , Hossein Kishani Farahani , Jean-Sébastien Pierre , Françoise Burel
Journal of Insect Physiology 103 71 -77

3
2017
Renal neuroendocrine control of desiccation and cold tolerance by Drosophila suzukii.

Selim Terhzaz , Lucy Alford , Joseph GC Yeoh , Richard Marley
Pest Management Science 74 ( 4) 800 -810

16
2018
Effect of latitude and acclimation on the lethal temperatures of the peach-potato aphid Myzus persicae

Lucy Alford , Tim M. Blackburn , Jeffrey S. Bale
Agricultural and Forest Entomology 14 ( 1) 69 -79

19
2012
Effects of three insecticides on adult bionomics of the parasitoid Encarsia formosa

Ahmad Heidari , Lucy Alford , Hossein Kishani Farahani
Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection 48 898 -909

2015
Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Insects in 2018

GH Abro , Michael Adang , Karla Addesso , Zachary Adelman

Renal function in an emerging pest insect, D. suzukii

R Marley , JAT Dow , EW Isaac , SA Davies