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Habitat management is an innovative strategy to enhance the population of biological control agents such as predators, parasitoids, and pathogens in order to manage insect pests, disease pathogens (fungi, bacteria, and viruses), nematodes, and weeds. This is achieved by maintaining vegetational diversity through polycultures (intercropping, cover crops, and crop rotation), provision of supplementary food resources (pollen and nectar), managing vegetation in field margins (beetle banks, hedgerows, strip highways for habitat), shelters, and artificial nesting structures.

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Reddy, P.P. (2017). Habitat Management. In: Agro-ecological Approaches to Pest Management for Sustainable Agriculture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4325-3_11

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