Original title: The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Insect Pests
Climate change can alter where crop pests live and how well they survive the winter. In some cases, pests may produce more generations in a year, or their timing may stop matching the plants they feed on. Climate shifts can also increase plant diseases carried by insects and weaken natural pest control. The paper says farmers will need to adapt pest management, using monitoring and prediction tools.
Imagine tending a garden through changing seasons. If warm spells arrive earlier, insects may survive the cold, appear sooner, or return for another round before the season ends. In this paper, those shifts in the garden’s timing and conditions stand for climate change altering crop pests, so growers need to watch for changes and adjust how they manage them.
Farmers may face pests in places or seasons where they were less of a threat before, increasing the risk of crop losses. Tracking climate and pest populations can help guide changes to pest management and protect food supplies.
The abstract describes possible effects and research priorities, but gives no specific crop, pest, region, or measured size of the effects. It does not report tests showing which management tactics or prediction tools work best.
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The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Insect Pests — Sandra Skendžić, Monika Zovko, Ivana Pajač Živković et al. — Insects — doi:10.3390/insects12050440
Abstract licence: CC BY
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