The increasing salinization of agricultural land is a pressing problem, altering how plants interact with organisms across multiple trophic levels. While salinity-induced changes in plant chemistry are known to affect insect herbivores, it remains unclear how these changes shape predator responses. Here, we examined how prey quality (tomato fruitworm caterpillars— Helicoverpa zea ), shaped by soil salinity influences the forag...

Pre-release host specificity testing can reliably predict the environmental safety of weed biological control agent (BCA) candidates but typically does not consider their host-finding behavior. Therefore, BCA candidates that do not utilize non-target plants in the field post-release, despite development on such plants in pre-release tests, may be prematurely disqualified for release. We addressed this issue with the seedpod we...