Book Review: Urban Insect Pests: Sustainable Management Strategies

Promoting Sustainable Insect Management Strategies: Learning from Organic Farmers

Insect pests of tea and their management.

Globally, 1031 species of arthropods are associated with the intensively managed tea Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze monoculture. All parts of the plant, leaf, stem, root, flower, and seed, are fed upon by at least one pest species, resulting in an 11%-55% loss in yield if left unchecked. There has been heavy use of organosynthetic pesticides since the 1950s to defend the plant against these p...

Sustainable Management of Invertebrate Rice Pests

The Sterile Insect Technique as a Component of Sustainable Area-wide Integrated Pest Management of Selected Horticultural Insect Pests

The indiscriminate use of broad-spectrum insecticides has caused major problems with pest resistance, residues in food, environmental contamination, outbreaks of secondary pests, and reductions in populations of beneficial insects. This results in increased demands for pest control methods that are both efficient and friendly to the environment. The sterile insect technique (SIT), applied as pa...

Wolbachia-based strategies to control insect pests and disease vectors

* Author for correspondence: Mailing address: S-225 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546 USA. Tel: (859)-257-5117; Fax: (859)-323-1120. Email: [email protected] Abstract. Wolbachia are a group of obligate intracellular maternally inherited bacteria that have been found in several arthropod groups including spiders, terrestrial crustaceans, and insects, in addition to filarial nematodes. I...