Quality control and production of biological control agents : theory and testing procedures /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2003.
• Subjects: Biological pest control agents.; Biological pest control agents industry > Quality control.; Biological Control.; Other Invertebrate Culture (Not Aquaculture); Behaviour (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Pathogens, Parasites and Infectious Diseases (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Techniques and Methodology.; Animal behaviour.; Behaviour.; Biological control agents.; Foraging.; Guidelines.; Mass rearing.; Natural enemies.; Parasitoids.; Predators.; Quality controls.; Test procedure.; Testing.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 20 chapters, divided into 6 sections. The first section discusses the development of quality control for natural enemies. The second section consists of chapters dealing with background information on sources of variation in foraging behaviour that are regularly encountered, but n...

Table of Contents:

• Need for Quality Control of Mass-produced Biological Control Agents / J.C. van Lenteren
• Aspects of Total Quality Control for the Production of Natural Enemies / N.C. Leppla
• A Variable-response Model for Parasitoid Foraging Behaviour / L.E.M. Vet, W.J. Lewis, D.R. Papaj and J.C. van Lenteren
• Variations in Natural-enemy Foraging Behaviour : Essential Element of a Sound Biological-control Theory / W.J. Lewis, L.E.M. Vet, J.H. Tumlinson, J.C. van Lenteren and D.R. Papaj
• The Parasitoids' Need for Sweets : Sugars in Mass Rearing and Biological Control / F.L. Wäckers
• Managing Captive Populations for Release : a Population-genetic Perspective / L. Nunney
• Adaptive Recovery after Fitness Reduction : the Role of Population Size / R.F. Hoekstra
• The Use of Unisexual Wasps in Biological Control / R. Stouthamer
• Comparison of Artificially vs. Naturally Reared Natural Enemies and Their Potential for Use in Biological Control / S. Grenier and P. De Clercq
• Pathogens of Mass-produced Natural Enemies and Pollinators / S. Bjørnson and C. Schütte
• Commercial Availability of Biological Control Agents / J.C. van Lenteren
• Mass Production, Storage, Shipment and Release of Natural Enemies / J.C. van Lenteren and M.G. Tommasini
• Regulation of Import and Release of Mass-produced Natural Enemies : a Risk-assessment Approach / J.C. van Lenteren, D. Babendreier, F. Bigler, G. Burgio, H.M.T. Hokkanen, S. Kuske, A.J.M. Loomans, I. Menzler-Hokkanen, P.C.J. van Rijn, M.B. Thomas and M.G. Tommasini
• Quality Assurance in North America : Merging Customer and Producer Needs / C.S. Glenister, A. Hale and A. Luczynski
• State of Affairs and Future Directions of Product Quality Assurance in Europe / K.J.F. Bolckmans
• The Relationship between Results from Laboratory Product-control Tests and Large-cage Tests Where Dispersal of Natural Enemies is Possible : a Case-study with Phytoseiulus persimilis / S. Steinberg and H. Cain
• Quality of Augmentative Biological Control Agents : a Historical Perspective and Lessons Learned from Evaluating Trichogramma / R.F. Luck and L.D. Forster
• Towards the Standardization of Quality Control of Fungal and Viral Biocontrol Agents / N.E. Jenkins and D. Grzywacz
• Guidelines for Quality Control of Commercially Produced Natural Enemies / J.C. van Lenteren, A. Hale, J.N. Klapwijk, J. van Schelt and S. Steinberg
• Basic Statistical Methods for Quality-control Workers / E. Wajnberg.