About the Authors

Hervé Bertin Daghela Bisseleua

herve.bisseleua@mdgwca.org

Affiliations MDG Centre West and Central Africa, Dakar, Senegal, Laboratory of Entomology, IRAD, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Department of Crop Science, Entomological Section, Goettingen, Germany, Centre for Environmental Research and Conservation, The Earth Institute of Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Daniel Fotio

Affiliation Laboratory of Entomology, IRAD, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Yede

Affiliation Laboratory of Entomology, IRAD, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Alain Didier Missoup

Affiliation Laboratory of Entomology, IRAD, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Stefan Vidal

Affiliation Georg-August-University Goettingen, Department of Crop Science, Entomological Section, Goettingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Helped to analyze the relationship between shade cover and environmental factors and other confounding variables and to prepare responses to reviewers' comments: DF. Conceived and designed the experiments: HBDB YY ADM SV. Performed the experiments: HBDB YY ADM. Analyzed the data: HBDB SV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HBDB ADM SV. Wrote the paper: HBDB ADM SV.