Biological Control in Plant Protection
Features
• Includes a chapter on pest biology illustrated with photos of the pest and their damage to help the reader identify friend from foe
• Discusses many naturally occurring beneficial organisms as well as a diverse range of commercially produced organisms
• Details various approaches to biological control and the current state of play
• Contains more than 550 high-resolution color photographs and electron microscope images
• Describes practical methods for establishing and maintaining beneficial organisms
• Offers useful tips on monitoring and taking photographs with a cell/mobile phone
• Presents two new chapters: The practice and application of biological control, Biological control in perspective
Summary
There has been a large increase in the commercial use of integrated crop/pest management methods for pest and disease control on a wide range of crops throughout the world since the first edition of this book. The completely revised second edition of the bestselling Biological Control in Plant Protection: A Color Handbook continues the objective of providing a handbook with profiles and full-color photographs of as many examples of biological control organisms from as wide a global area as possible. It is designed to help readers anticipate and recognize specific problems of pest management and then resolve them using the natural enemies of pests—parasites, predators, and pathogens.
The authors first describe the impact of predator-prey relationships on host plant species in arable, orchard, and protected environments. The main sections of the book include profiles of pests, beneficial arthropods (insects and mites), and beneficial pathogens (bacteria, fungi, viruses, and nematodes), featuring a tabular pest identification guide. Descriptions of biocontrol organisms are divided into four sections: species characteristics, lifecycle, crop/pest associations, and influences of growing practices. The text is illustrated throughout with color photographs of the highest quality.
This revised edition helps readers more fully understand the concepts and practice of biological control and integrated pest management. All chapters have been updated and expanded, and more than 300 new photographs have been added. The second edition covers new beneficial organisms and pest profiles, and it includes a new chapter on the practical aspects and application of biological control. It also contains a new final chapter that puts biological control in perspective, discussing interactions that occur when using biocontrol for population management as well as some of the possible mechanisms of biocontrol.
Table of Contents
The practice and application of biological control
Introduction
Parasites and Parasitoids
Predators
Pathogens
Strategies for Biological Control
Conservation or Preservation Biological Control
Importation/Classical Biological Control
Inoculative Control
Inundative Control
Integrated Crop/Pest Management
Practical Aspects of Biological Control
Pest Monitoring
Biological control in various cropping systems
Introduction
Arable
Introduction
Arable Production and Biologicals
The Challenge of Biocontrol
The Use of Pesticides and Beneficial Insects
Monitoring Levels of Beneficial Insects
Carabid Beetles
Staphylinid Beetles
Linyphiid Spiders
Integrated Crop Management (ICM)
Conservation Strategies Using Headlands and Beetle Banks
Fruit
Introduction
Fruit Production and Biologicals
The Challenge of Biocontrol
Major Pests
Integrated Crop Management
Protected Crops
Introduction
Crop Production and Biologicals
Pest Monitoring
The Challenges of Biological Control
Integrated Crop Management
Biology of some common target pests with their damage symptoms
Introduction
Common pest species
Slugs and snails
Spider Mites
Woodlice
Millipedes
Leaf Hoppers, Psyllids, Whitefly, Aphids, Scale Insects, and Mealybugs
Leafhoppers
Psyllids
Whiteflies
Aphids
Scale Insects
Mealybugs
Thrips
Lepidoptera
Caterpillars (of Moths and Butterflies)
Flies
Leaf Miners
Sciarids
Shore Flies
Beetles
Weevils
Arthropod biological control agents
Introduction
Spiders
Predatory Mites
Centipedes
Insects including dragonflies, earwigs, pond skaters, predatory bugs, predatory thrips, lacewings, ladybird beetles, ground beetles, parasitoid and predatory flies, and wasps,
Beneficial pathogens
Introduction
Viruses
Bacteria
Fungi
Nematodes
Biological control in perspective, Dr. Mike Copland
Classical Biological Control—Foreign Plants
Classical Biological Control—Foreign Pests
Foreign Predators That Might Do Harm
Animal Groups
Nematodes
Mites
Mechanisms Involved
Pollination and Seed Dispersal
Sugars That Fuel Animal Activity
The Combination of Sucking Insects and Ants
Development of Resistance to Pesticides and Pollination Drives the Need for Biological Control
Regulation of Biological Control
Microorganisms
Bacteria
Bacterial Diseases of Plants
Bacterial Diseases of Insects
Fungi
Viruses
Natural Plant Resistance Mechanisms
Resistance Mechanisms
The Future of Biological Control
Glossary
References
Further reading
Useful websites
