In most crops, habitat management has been applied to safely control pests and maintain yield levels. Limitedresearch has focused on the impact of habitat management on crop quality. Herein, habitat management efec-tively controlled pests by maintaining arthropod biodiversity and developing natural enemies on the tea plan-tation. Furthermore, intercropping and natural pest control, as aspects of habitat management, increased theyield. An analysis of metabolites showed that, compared with the CK tea plantation, the levels of some catechins,including EGCG, were signifcantly increased on the HM tea plantation. Additionally, owing to plant responsesto biostress and a larger arthropod community on the HM tea plantation, aroma compounds were more abun-dant in tea leaves from the HM tea plantation than in those from the CP tea plantation. Terefore, the tea qualityappeared to be better on the HM tea plantation than on the CP tea plantation. Accordingly, considering yield,safety, and quality, habitat management was the best approach for operating a tea plantation (Fig. 8). Tis studydemonstrates the dual function of habitat management in pest control and tea quality improvement for the frsttime, which strongly supports the future wide application of habitat management in tea plantations.