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Book Ecological Studies to Develop the Sterile Insect Technique for Control of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly  Ceratitis Capitata Wied

Download or read book Ecological Studies to Develop the Sterile Insect Technique for Control of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis Capitata Wied written by Egypt. Wizārat al-Zirāʻah and published by . This book was released on 1982* with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sterile Insect Technique

    Book Details:
  • Author : V.A. Dyck
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2006-02-23
  • ISBN : 1402040512
  • Pages : 784 pages

Download or read book Sterile Insect Technique written by V.A. Dyck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly pest control method that fits into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book describes the principles and practice of SIT, frankly evaluating its strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures. SIT is useful against pests that have considerable impact on plant, animal and human health, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for SIT.

Book Sterile Insect Technique

Download or read book Sterile Insect Technique written by Victor A. Dyck and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 1493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from a scientific perspective. The SIT is applicable to some major pests of plant-, animal-, and human-health importance, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for the SIT. In the second edition, all aspects of the SIT have been updated and the content considerably expanded. A great variety of subjects is covered, from the history of the SIT to improved prospects for its future application. The major chapters discuss the principles and technical components of applying sterile insects. The four main strategic options in using the SIT — suppression, containment, prevention, and eradication — with examples of each option are described in detail. Other chapters deal with supportive technologies, economic, environmental, and management considerations, and the socio-economic impact of AW-IPM programmes that integrate the SIT. In addition, this second edition includes six new chapters covering the latest developments in the technology: managing pathogens in insect mass-rearing, using symbionts and modern molecular technologies in support of the SIT, applying post-factory nutritional, hormonal, and semiochemical treatments, applying the SIT to eradicate outbreaks of invasive pests, and using the SIT against mosquito vectors of disease. This book will be useful reading for students in animal-, human-, and plant-health courses. The in-depth reviews of all aspects of the SIT and its integration into AW-IPM programmes, complete with extensive lists of scientific references, will be of great value to researchers, teachers, animal-, human-, and plant-health practitioners, and policy makers.

Book The Sterile   Insect Technique and Its Field Applications

Download or read book The Sterile Insect Technique and Its Field Applications written by 1972 PANEL ON THE PRACTICAL USE OF THE STERILE-MALE TECHNIQUE FOR INSECT CONTROL (Viena) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Status of the sterile-insect release method against the cherry fruit fly (Rhagoletis cerase L.) in northwest Switzerland; Status of mediterranean fruit fly control by the sterile-male technique on the Island of Procida; Review of work to combat the mediterranean fruit fly carried out in Central America and Panama; The practical use of the sterility method for the control of soft ticks; Genetic control of Rhagoletis cerasi L.: preconditions, present situation and prospects; Possibilities of using genetic methods to control the tsetse fly; Ecological problems associated with an attempt to eradicate Dacus dorsalis (Tephritidae: Diptera) from the southern islands of Japan with a recommendation on the use of the sterile-male technique; Status of the sterile-insect release method in the world; Control of Ceratitis capitata Wied. by the sterile-male technique in Spain; The possibility of applying the sterile-male technique to the control of tsetse flies in Nigeria and the problems to be faced; Codling moth control by the sterility principle in British Columbia: Estimated cost and some biological observations relate dto cost; Current views regarding the application of the sterile-male technique for the control of codling moth in Austria; Present status of the Peruvian project on mediterranean fruit fly control by the sterile-male technique; Field experiments with the release of sterilized onion flies, Hylemya antique (Meig.); Current status and prospects of applying the sterile-insect release method against Dacus oleae; Research on rice insects in Thailand.

Book Controlling Fruit Flies by the Sterile insect Technique

Download or read book Controlling Fruit Flies by the Sterile insect Technique written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Area wide Integrated Pest Management

Download or read book Area wide Integrated Pest Management written by Jorge Hendrichs and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. The extensive reliance on insecticide use reduces biodiversity, contributes to pollinator decline, destroys habitat, and threatens endangered species. This book offers a more effective application of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach, on an area-wide (AW) or population-wide (AW-IPM) basis, which aims at the management of the total population of a pest, involving a coordinated effort over often larger areas. For major livestock pests, vectors of human diseases and pests of high-value crops with low pest tolerance, there are compelling economic reasons for participating in AW-IPM. This new textbook attempts to address various fundamental components of AW-IPM, e.g. the importance of relevant problem-solving research, the need for planning and essential baseline data collection, the significance of integrating adequate tools for appropriate control strategies, and the value of pilot trials, etc. With chapters authored by 184 experts from more than 31 countries, the book includes many technical advances in the areas of genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, resistance management, and social sciences that facilitate the planning and implementing of area-wide strategies. The book is essential reading for the academic and applied research community as well as national and regional government plant and human/animal health authorities with responsibility for protecting plant and human/animal health.

Book Fruit Fly Research and Development in Africa   Towards a Sustainable Management Strategy to Improve Horticulture

Download or read book Fruit Fly Research and Development in Africa Towards a Sustainable Management Strategy to Improve Horticulture written by Sunday Ekesi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horticultural sector presents many opportunities for economic development and improving livelihood of growers but several factors constrain production and limit the potential for trade of fruits and vegetables. Tephritid fruit flies constitute a major constraint. They cause enormous losses through direct feeding damage and loss of market opportunities through imposition of quarantine restrictions by importing countries to prevent entry and their establishment. In Africa, several native (Ceratitis and Dacus spp) and exotic (Bactrocera and Zeugodacus spp.) species inflict considerable losses to horticulture causing losses ranging from 30-90%. Over the past 10 years of R&D, extensive information has been generated on bioecology and management of several native and exotic fruit flies in Africa. While several specific reviews have addressed various aspects of the biology, ecology and management of economically important tephritid fruit flies; coverage of African native species has been limited largely to Bactrocera oleae and Ceratitis capitata – which are not economically important species in many Africa countries. Indeed, no book exist that have explicitly addressed economically important African fruit flies and none of the various reviews, have specifically focused on the status of the bioecology, economic impact and management of exotic and native fruit flies – including several potentially invasive Dacus species attacking vegetables - in Africa. This book consolidates this status of knowledge and socio-economic impact of various intervention techniques that are currently being applied across Africa. The timing of the book is especially pertinent due to the changing fruit fly landscape in Africa – caused by arrivals of the highly destructive alien invasives (Bactrocera dorsalis, B. zonata, and B. latifrons) - and the priorities African countries have placed recently on export of fruits and vegetables to international markets. This is an important reference material for researchers, academics and students that are keen at improving horticulture and enhancing food and nutrition security in Africa and beyond.

Book The Sterile insect Technique and Its Field Applications

Download or read book The Sterile insect Technique and Its Field Applications written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fruit Fly Pests

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce A. McPheron
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2020-03-10
  • ISBN : 1000725103
  • Pages : 614 pages

Download or read book Fruit Fly Pests written by Bruce A. McPheron and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of national and international importance, Fruit Fly Pests is an exhaustive compendium of information (with data provided by more than 100 contributors) that will appeal to a wide variety of readers. With huge losses experienced annually from fruit fly devastation, information on these high-profile insects is important to commercial fruit and vegetable growers, marketing exporters, government regulatory agencies, and the scientific community. Fruit flies impose a considerable resource tax, and the ones who suffer range from shippers to end users. The demand for world-wide plant protection requires up-to-date research information. This book meets that need. This book contains the proceedings from the most recent International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance. Here you will find the major presentations given at the symposium, with an added feature - overviews from experts on topics not covered directly by participants in the symposium, filling in gaps in the current literature. The resulting publication is the most up-to-date and readable text to be found anywhere on the subject of tephritids.

Book Area Wide Control of Insect Pests

Download or read book Area Wide Control of Insect Pests written by M.J.B. Vreysen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insect pests are becoming a problem of ever-more biblical proportions. This new textbook collates a series of selected papers that attempt to address various fundamental components of area-wide insect pest control. Of special interest are the numerous papers on pilot and operational programs that pay special attention to practical problems encountered during program implementation. It’s a compilation of more than 60 papers authored by experts from more than 30 countries.

Book Trapping and the Detection  Control  and Regulation of Tephritid Fruit Flies

Download or read book Trapping and the Detection Control and Regulation of Tephritid Fruit Flies written by Todd Shelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on four broad topics related to trapping of agriculturally important tephritid fruit flies, namely i) lures and traps, ii) invasion biology and detection of infestations, iii) attract and kill systems, and iv) trade regulations and risk assessment. This comprehensive structure progresses from the biological interaction between insect and lures/traps to the area-wide use of trapping systems to the utilization and impact of trapping data on international trade. The chapters include accounts of earlier research but are not simply compendia and instead evaluate past and current work as a tool for critical analysis and proposal of productive avenues for future work. At present there is no book available that deals with fruit fly trapping in such a broad context. Our book fills this gap and serves as a global reference for both those interested in fruit flies specifically as well as anyone dealing with the threat of invasive agricultural insects in general.

Book The Melon Fly

Download or read book The Melon Fly written by Ernest Adna Back and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pp. 30.

Book Fruit Flies and the Sterile Insect Technique

Download or read book Fruit Flies and the Sterile Insect Technique written by Carrol O. Calkins and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a continuation of the development of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) specifically designed for use against, and management of, fruit flies. Several factors indicate an increased use of the SIT against fruit flies within the next decade.

Book Proceedings

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  • Author : 1971 PANEL ON COMPUTER MODELS AND APPLICATION OF THE STERILE-MALE TECHNIQUE (Vienna)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by 1971 PANEL ON COMPUTER MODELS AND APPLICATION OF THE STERILE-MALE TECHNIQUE (Vienna) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A view to computer simulation in sterile male experiments; Principles of the sterile male technique with emphasis on ecology; Computer modelling of the dynamics of insect populations; Computer simulation of population reduction by release of sterile insects: II. the effects of dynamic survival and multiple mating; An approach to modelling spatially heterogeneous populations and the simulation of populations subject to sterile insect release programs; Population suppression with dominant and conditional lethal mutations: some important considerations and approaches; Some applications of computer modelling in population suppression by sterile males; Computer simulation for genetic control of the onion fly, Hylemya antiqua (Meigen); Dynamic aspects of the pala strile hybrid fiel experiment; Development of a population model of cotton red bollworm as a basis for testing pest control strategies; The possibilities of using the sterile male technique for aphid control - a theoretical discussion; Field studies on insect sterilization with mosquitoes, house flies and stable flies; The consequences of control of African trypanosomiasis; Resume of requirements for a sterile insect release program exclusive of basic laboratory and field cage studies; Some biological observations related to codling moth control by the sterility principle; Preliminary studies of Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata wied. populations in Cyprus; The use of simulation in the choice of an optimum radaition dose for control of Glossina morsitans.

Book CLIMEX

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. W. Sutherst
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999-01
  • ISBN : 9780643063617
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book CLIMEX written by R. W. Sutherst and published by . This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible software package which allows individuals to develop models on the impact of climate in both plants and animals. CLIMEX is used in over 20 countries to examine the distribution of insects, plants, pathogens and vertebrates for a variety of purposes, including biogeography in quarantine, biological control strategies and impacts of changes in climate and climate variability. It can be used to compare climate at different locations, compare climate across a number of years and to match climates against pre-set criteria.

Book Area wide Control of Fruit Flies and Other Insect Pests

Download or read book Area wide Control of Fruit Flies and Other Insect Pests written by Keng-Hong Tan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much research effort is currently underway to improve and implement the area-wide control of insect pests, in order to minimize the use of pesticides and protect the environment. This volume is an outcome of two major international meetings, the FAO/IAEA International Conference on Area-Wide Control of Insect Pests, and the Fifth International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, both held in June 1998 in Penang. More than 300 pages were presented, but this volume includes the 91 considered the most valuable by an international review panel. Papers have been edited, revised and updated as necessary. Contributors include respected research workers from all over the world. The volume will be an indispensable reference volume for workers in agricultural, medical and veterinary entomology.

Book Guidance for Packing  Shipping  Holding and Release of Sterile Flies in Area wide Fruit Fly Control Programmes

Download or read book Guidance for Packing Shipping Holding and Release of Sterile Flies in Area wide Fruit Fly Control Programmes written by Walther Enkerlin and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been little harmonisation of the processes involved in the handling and release of sterile insects after production in mass rearing facilities. There are no standard guidelines available to transfer this technology to FAO or IAEA member countries that want to embark on sterile insect technique (SIT) activities. There is also increased interest by the private sector in investing in sterile insect production and/or other SIT activities, and these harmonized guidelines on the post-production phase will facilitate SIT application and foster the commercialization of the SIT.This guideline resulted from two FAO/IAEA consultants' meetings with representatives of relevant SIT programmes, the first held in Sarasota, Florida, United States of America (April 2004) and the second in Vienna, Austria (August 2005). It has identified a number of gaps in knowledge as well as procedures that are often based on conventional wisdom but which need scientific verification or optimization.