About the Authors

Edward Nderitu Karanja

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological sciences, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya, International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

Andreas Fliessbach

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick, Switzerland

Noah Adamtey

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick, Switzerland

Anne Kelly Kambura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Martha Musyoka

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

Komi Fiaboe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Romano Mwirichia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mwirichia.romano@embuni.ac.ke

Affiliation Department of Biological sciences, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.