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

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. Its a compilation of more than 60 papers authored by experts from more than 30 countries.

If major advances are to be made in coping with most of the major arthropod pest problems, then the tactics and strategies for managing such insects, ticks and mites must change. They must change from the current, limited scale, reactive, broad-spectrum measures to preventive measures that are target-pest specific and rigidly applied on an area-wide basis.

E.F. Knipling on the occasion of receiving the World Food Prize on 12 October 1992.

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 WlÃñ