Area-Wide Control of Insect Pests - From Research to Field Implementation

Hardcover  792 pp  ISBN 9781402060588      £171.00

• Collates a series of selected papers that attempt to address various fundamental components of IPM
• Of interest are the numerous papers on pilot and operational programmes that pay special attention to practical problems encountered during programme implementation
• A compilation of 66 papers that are authored by experts from more than 30 countries

Contents

Preface.
Disclaimer
Introductory Remarks; W. Klassen.

Section 1. Setting the Scene.
1. Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (AW-IPM): Principles, Practice and Prospects; J. Hendrichs et al.
2. Area Wide Pest Management: Environmental, Economic and Food Issues; D. Pimentel.

Section 2. Basic Research.
3. Engineering Insects for the Sterile Insect Technique; L.S. Alphey.
4. The hobo, Hermes and Herves Transposable Elements of Insects; P.W. Atkinson et al.
5. Improving the Ecological Safety of Transgenic Insects for Field Release: New Vectors for Stability and Genomic Targeting; A.M. Handler et al.
6. Development of an Embryonic Lethality System in Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata; M.F. Schetelig et al.
7. New Sexing Strains for Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capitata: Transforming Females into Males; G. Saccone et al.
8. Developing Transgenic Sexing Strains for the Release of Non-Transgenic Sterile Male Codling Moths Cydia pomonella; F. Marec et al.
9. Sex Chromatin Body as a Cytogenetic Marker of W. Chromosome Aberrations in Cydia pomonella Females; H. Makee, N. Tafesh.
10. Potential Use of a Conditional Lethal Transgenic Pink Bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella in Area-Wide Eradication or Suppression Programmes; G.S. Simmons et al.
11. Wolbachia-Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility to Control Insect Pests?; K. Bourtzis.
12. Symbiosis-Based Technological Advances to Improve Tsetse Glossina spp. SIT Application; S. Aksoy, B.L. Weiss.
13. Colony Maintenance and Mass-Rearing: Using Cold Storage Technology for Extending the Shelf-Life of Insects; R.A. Leopold.
14. Improving the Efficacy of the Sterile Insect Technique for Fruit Flies by Incorporation of Hormone and Dietary Supplements into Adult Holding Protocols; P.E.A. Teal et al.
15. Unfaithful Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capitata Females: Impact on the SIT?; M. Bonizzoni et al.
16. Assessing Genetic Variation in New World Screwworm Cochliomyia hominivorax Populations from Uruguay; T.T. Torres et al.
17. Emerging Mosquito-Borne Flaviviruses in Central Europe: Usutu Virus and Novel West Nile Viruses; N. Nowotny et al.

Section 3. Modelling and Methods Development.
18. The Role of Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis in Area-Wide Vector Control Programmes; J.St.H. Cox.
19. Optimizing Strategies for Eradication of Discrete-Generation Lepidopteran Pests Using Inherited Sterility; J.M. Kean et al.
20. A Diffusion Model for Glossina palpalis gambiensis in Burkina Faso; J. Bouyer et al.
21. Current Advances in the Use of Cryogenics and Aerial Navigation Technologies for Sterile Insect Delivery Systems; G. Tween, P. Rendón.
22. Area-Wide IPM for Commercial Wheat Storage; P.W. Flinn et al.
23. Development, Validation and Use of a Simulation Model to Deliver National Predictions of Ovine Cutaneous Myiasis Risk in the British Isles; R. Wall, K.E. Pitts.
24. Problems with the Management of the Golden Apple Snail Pomacea canaliculata: an Important Exotic Pest of Rice in Asia; R.C. Joshi.
25. Mass-Rearing and Field Performance of Irradiated Carob Moth Ectomyelois ceratoniae in Tunisia; J. Mediouni, M.H. Dhouibi.
26. Autodissemination of Semiochemicals and Pesticides: a New Concept Compatible with the Sterile Insect Technique; P. Howse et al.

Section 4. Feasibility Studies.
27. Strategies to Control the Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria; A. van Huis.
28. The Mountain Pine Beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae in Western North America: Potential for Area-Wide Integrated Management; A.L. Carroll.
29. A Strategy for an Area-Wide Control Campaign with an SIT Component to Establish a Tsetse- (Glossina austeni and Glossina brevipalpis) Free South Africa; K. Kappmeier Green et al.
30. Area-Wide Control of Tsetse and Trypanosomosis: Ethiopian Experience in the Southern Rift Valley; T. Alemu et al.
31. Don€t let Cacto Blast Us: Development of a Bi-National Plan to Strop the Spread of the Cactus Moth Cactoblastis cactorum in North America; K. Bloem et al.
32. Preventive Programme Against the Cactus Moth Cactoblastis cactorum in Mexico; J. Hernández et al.
33. Area-Wide Control Tactics for the False Codling Moth Thaumatotibia leucotreta in South Africa: a Potential Invasive Species; J. Carpenter et al.
34. SIT for the Malaria Vector Anopheles arabiensis in Northern State, Sudan: a Historical Review of the Field Site; C.A. Malcolm et al.
35. Integrated Management of Rice Stem Borers in the Yangtze Delta, China; Z-R. Zhu et al.
36. Management of Cotton Insect Pests in Tajikistan; S.M. Mukhitdinov.
37. Insecticidal Wound Treatment of Livestock on Isla de la Juventud, Cuba: an Efficient Suppression Method of New World Screwworm Cochliomyia hominivorax Prior to the Release of Sterile Insects; R. Garcia et al.

Section 5. Commercialization and Regulation.
38. Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes and Agricultural Trade: Challenges and Opportunities for Regulatory Plant Protection; C. Devorshak.
39. Systems Approaches as Phytosanitary Measures: Techniques and Case Studies; E.V. Podleckis.
40. Postharvest Phytosanitary Radiation Treatments: Less-Thank-Probit 9, Generic Dose, and High Dose Applications; P.A. Follett.
41. Tools for the Trade: the International Business of the SIT; M.M. Quinlan, A. Larcher-Carvalho.
42. Privatizing the SIT: a Conflict Between Business and Technology?; B.N. Barnes.
43. Private Sector Investment in Mediterranean Fruit Fly Mass-Production and SIT Operations - The "Sheep" of the Private Sector Among the "Wolves" of the Public Good?; Y. Bassi et al.

Section 6. Pilot Programmes.
44. Assessment of the Sterile Insect Technique to Manage Red Palm Weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus in Coconut; R. Krishnakumar, P. Maheswari.
45. Area-Wide Suppression of Invasive Fire Ant Solenopsis spp. Populations; R.K. van der Meer et al.
46. A Cultural Method for the Area-Wide Control of Tarnished Plant Bug Lygus lineolaris in Cotton; C.A. Abel et al.
47. Use of the Sterile Insect Technique Against Aedes albopictus in Itlay: First Results of a Pilot Trial; R. Bellini et al.
48. Area-Wide Integrated Control of Oriental Fruit Fly Bactrocera dorsalis and Guava Fruit Fly Bactrocera correcta in Thailand; W. Orankanok et al.
49. Establishment of a Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capitata, Fruit Fly Parasitoids and Codling Moth Cydia pomonella Rearing Facility in North-Eastern Brazil; A. Malavasi et al.
50. Pilot Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratidis capitata Rearing Facility in Tunisia: Constraints and Prospects; M. M'Saad Guerfali et al.

Section 7. Operational AW-IPM Programmes.
51. Progress of Boll Weevil Anthonomus grandis Eradication in the United States of America, 2005; O . El-Lissy, B. Grefenstette.
52. Regional Management Strategy for Cotton Bollworm Helicoverpa armigera in China; K.M. Wu.
53. Integrated Systems for Control of the Pink Bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella in Cotton; T.J. Henneberry.
54. Pulling out the Evil by the Root: the Codling Moth Cydia pomonella Eradication Programme in Brazil; A. Kovaleski, J. Mumford.
55. Suppression of the Codling Moth Cydia pomonella in British Columbia, Canada Using an Area-Wide Integrated Approach with an SIT Component; S. Bloem et al.
56. Eradication of the Australian Painted Apple Moth Teia anartoides in New Zealand: Trapping, Inherited Sterility, and Male Competitiveness; D.M. Suckling et al.
57. Area-Wide Management of the Formosan Subterranean Termite Coptotermes formosanus in New Orleans French Quarter; A.R. Lax et al.
58. A Multi-Institutional Approach to Create Fruit Fly-Low Prevalence and Fly-Free Areas in Central America; J. Reyes et al.
59. The Fruit Fly Exclusion Programme in Chile; J. Gonzalez, P. Troncoso.
60. Expansion of the National Fruit Fly Control Programme in Argentina; D. Guillén, R. Sánchez.
61. The Augmentative Biological Control Component in the Mexican National Campaign Against Anastrepha spp. Fruit Flies; P. Montoya et al.
62. The Hawaii Area-Wide Fruit Fly Pest Management Programme: Influence of Partnerships and a Good Education Programme; R.F.L. Mau et al.
63. Area-Wide Management of Fruit Flies in Australia; A.J. Jessup et al.
64. Five Years of Mosquito Control in Northern Greece; N. Piakis et al.
65. The Caribbean Amblyomma variegatum Eradication Programme: Success or Failure?; R.G. Pegram et al.

Section 8. Lessons Learned.
66. Lessons from Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (AW-IPM) Programmes with a SIT Component : a FAO/IAEA Perspective; M.J.B. Vreysen et al.

Author Index.
Subject Index.