Supplementary Feeding for Biological Control: A Complete Guide
July 24, 2024
growth. Supplemental feeding provides many preferred prey/food sources minimizing cannibalism. Intraguild Predation – is when varied species of biocontrol [...] beneficials to reproduce on. Outside of this, supplementary feeding will only minimize starvation, at most slightly extending the life span of the predators at [...] beneficial insects are typically re-introduced weekly anyways so there is minimal (to a potentially negative) effect from supplemental feeding. For instance