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Comparisons are drawn between the decision-making processes used in the management of two major pests of Asian rice production, namely, the brown planthopper (BPH) Nilaparvata lugens, and rice tungro virus disease (RTVD), which is transmitted primarily by green leafhoppers, Nephotettix spp. BPH exhibits quite different population dynamics and behaviour in the tropical and the temperate parts of its...