Quality control and production of biological control agents : theory and testing procedures

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Wallingford, Oxon, UK : CABI Publishing, 2003

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xi, 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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9780851996882

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Biological pest control agents

Biological pest control agents industry -- Quality control

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Lenteren, J. C. van

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The use of biological control agents has been increasing worldwide and there are now many companies mass-producing such organisms, particularly for the control of insect pests. However, there is a great need for quality control in the production and use of these natural enemies, which include insect parasitoids and predators, fungi and viruses. This book has been written by leading scientists from Europe and North America to provide both background theory and practical guidance on this subject.

J.C. van LenterenN.C. LepplaL.E.M. Vet and W.J. Lewis and D.R. Papaj and J.C. van LenterenW.J. Lewis and L.E.M. Vet and J.H. Tumlinson and J.C. van Lenteren and D.R. PapajF.L. WackersL. NunneyR.F. HoekstraR. StouthamerS. Grenier and P. De ClercqS. Bjornson and C. SchutteJ.C. van LenterenJ.C. van Lenteren and M.G. TommasiniJ.C. van Lenteren and D. Babendreier and F. Bigler and G. Burgio and H.M.T. Hokkanen and S. Kuske and A.J.M. Loomans and I. Menzler-Hokkanen and P.C.J. van Rijn and M.B. Thomas|cM.G. TommasiniC.S. Glenister and A. Hale and A. LuczynskiK.J.F. BolckmansS. Steinberg and H. CainR.F. Luck and L.D. ForsterN.E. Jenkins and D. GrzywaczJ.C. van Lenteren and A. Hale and J.N. Klapwijk and J. van Schelt and S. SteinbergE. Wajnberg

Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Part I. Quality Control for Natural Enemies
1. Need for Quality Control of Mass-produced Biological Control Agents	p. 1
2. Aspects of Total Quality Control for the Production of Natural Enemies	p. 19
Part II. Variability in Foraging Behaviour of Natural Enemies
3. A Variable-response Model for Parasitoid Foraging Behaviour	p. 25
4. Variations in Natural-enemy Foraging Behaviour: Essential Element of a Sound Biological-control Theory	p. 41
5. The Parasitoids' Need for Sweets: Sugars in Mass Rearing and Biological Control	p. 59
Part III. Coping with Variation in Foraging Behaviour
6. Managing Captive Populations for Release: a Population-genetic Perspective	p. 73
7. Adaptive Recovery after Fitness Reduction: the Role of Population Size	p. 89
8. The Use of Unisexual Wasps in Biological Control	p. 93
9. Comparison of Artificially vs. Naturally Reared Natural Enemies and Their Potential for Use in Biological Control	p. 115
10. Pathogens of Mass-produced Natural Enemies and Pollinators	p. 133
Section IV. Mass-Produced Natural Enemies
11. Commercial Availability of Biological Control Agents	p. 167
12. Mass Production, Storage, Shipment and Release of Natural Enemies	p. 181
13. Regulation of Import and Release of Mass-produced Natural Enemies: a Risk-assessment Approach	p. 191
Section V. Quality Control Testing of Natural Enemies
14. Quality Assurance in North America: Merging Customer and Producer Needs	p. 205
15. State of Affairs and Future Directions of Product Quality Assurance in Europe	p. 215
16. The Relationship between Results from Laboratory Product-control Tests and Large-cage Tests Where Dispersal of Natural Enemies is Possible: a Case-study with Phytoseiulus persimilis	p. 225
17. Quality of Augmentative Biological Control Agents: a Historical Perspective and Lessons Learned from Evaluating Trichogramma	p. 231
Section VI. Quality Control Tests
18. Towards the Standardization of Quality Control of Fungal and Viral Biocontrol Agents	p. 247
19. Guidelines for Quality Control of Commercially Produced Natural Enemies	p. 265
20. Basic Statistical Methods for Quality-control Workers	p. 305
Index	p. 315

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