Biological control of pests

Cox, P.D. and Wilkin, D.R. 1996. The potential use of biological control of pests in stored grain. In Research Review 36 , pp. 1-53. Home-Grown Cereals Authority, London. 

Miltenburger, H. G. In "Environmental Protection and Biological Control of Pest Organisms" Lundholm, B. Stackerud, M., Eds. Ecol. Bull. 1980, 31, 57-74. 

Biological control of pests with their natural enemies can reduce our dependence upon toxic synthetic chemicals. In this presentation 1 will give an overview of biological control of pests ... 

Use Biological control of pests, especially fabricfeeding insects, often in combination with dl-p-fluo-rophenylalanine, an amino-acid inhibitor also as a contact insecticide in an oil spray. The mechanism is that of structural antagonism rather than active toxicity. 

We need to research how to use effectively our existing pesticides, how to conserve them, and how to fit them into new strategies for pest control. In the past it was difficult to consider the use of pheromones, other alternative controls, or biological controls of pests because there was no funding incentive for development. 

The greatest successes in achieving biological control of pest... 

Carruthers RI, Onsager JA. Perspective on the use of exotic natural enemies for biological control of pest grasshoppers (Orthoptera Acrididae). Environ Entomol 22 885-903, 1993. 

Hendry, J. A., Homer, R. F., Rose, F. L. and Walpole, A. L. (1951) Brit. J. Pharmacol., 6, 357. Himmelweit, F. (1956) The Collected Papers of Paul Ehrlich. Vol. 1. Pergamon Press, London. Jermy, T. (1967) Biological Control of Pests Damaging Crops (in Hungarian), Mezogazdasagi Kiado, Budapest. 

On the other hand, numerous examples have shown that introduction of organisms to new environments can have far reaching effects. Certain attempts at biological control of pests and accidental releases or importation are cited frequently as examples of the potential disasters that await any environmental releases of products of modern biotechnology. It is interesting to note when some of these events occurred the mongoose was imported from Calcutta to Jamaica in 1872 to control rats in sugar cane fields Kudzu vine was introduced to the southern U.S. to control erosion in... 

Microbial and Viral Agents for the Control of Insect Pests. Microbial agents traditionally have been visualized as contributing to biological control of pests. Many of these microbial agents can now be defined chemically. Work is also progressing on fly control in animal production and antigens for nematodes and insects (19). 

Nelson, E.B., Burpee, L.L. and Lawton, M.B. (1994). Biological control of turfgrass diseases , in Leslie A.R., Handbook of Integrated Pest Management for Turf and Ornamentals, CRC Press/Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida, 409 -27. 

In yet another application of plant virus peptide presentation systems, Borovsky [52] used TMV to present a peptide, trypsin modulating oostatic factor (TMOF), that terminates trypsin biosynthesis in the mosquito gut and causes larval mortality. This unique study uses plant virus particles for the biological control of insect pests. 

Nelson EB, Burpee LL, Lawton MB (1994) Biological control of turf-grass diseases. In Leslie AR (ed) Handbook of integrated pest management for turf and ornamentals. Lewis Publishers, Ann Arbor, MI, pp 409-427... 

Easwaramoorthy S, Sankaranarayanan C. Biological control of sugarcane pests with entomopathogenic nematodes. In Hussaini SS, Rabindra RJ, Nagesh M, editors. Current status of research on entomopathogenic nematodes in India. Bangalore Project Directorate of Biological Control 2003. pp. 143-152. 

Glen DM, Wilson MJ, Pearce JD, Rodgers PB. (1994) Discovery and investigation of a novel nematode parasite for biological control of slugs. In Proceedings of the Brighton Crop Protection Conference, pests and diseases, pp 617-624. 

Wilson MJ, George SK, Glen DM, Pearce JD, Rodgers PB. (1993d) Biological control of slug and snail pests with a novel parasitic nematode. In ANPP third international conference on pests in agriculture, Montpellier, France, pp 425-432. 

In addition to maintaining soil health, microbes are also important in converting manures, crop residues and other organic materials into composts, humus and plant available nutrients (Welbaum ef al. 2004, see also Chapter 2 and Special topic 2), providing biological control of certain pests and diseases (Trejo-Estrada ef al. 1998, Brimner and Boland 2003) and decomposing crop residues in the paddock (Vazquez ef al. 2003). 

Rozeff, N. (1997). Biological control of sugarcane pests part III. Sugar J., 60(5) 8. 

Quimby, P.C., Birdsall, J.L. Fungal agents for biological control of weeds classical and augmentative approaches. In, Novel Approaches to Integrated Pest Management. Reuveni R. ed., CRC Press Boca Raton, FL, 1995, pp. 293-308. 

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