About the Authors

Susan Wairimu Muriuki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya

Anne Kambura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Taita Taveta University, Voi, Kenya

Julius Mugweru

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya

Kennedy Wanjau

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

David Bautze

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Frick, Switzerland

Thomas Dubois

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

Felix Matheri

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

Edwin Mwangi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

Nancy Mwende

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

Edwin Ngetha

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya

Edward Nderitu Karanja

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

ekaranja@icipe.org

Affiliation International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.