Area-wide control of insect pests: from research to field implementation

Preface......Page 6
Introductory Remarks......Page 8
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 12
Section 1 Setting the Scene......Page 17
Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (AW-IPM): Principles, Practice and Prospects......Page 19
Area-Wide Pest Management: Environmental, Economic, and Food Issues......Page 51
Section 2 Basic Research......Page 65
Engineering Insects for the Sterile Insect Technique......Page 67
The hobo, Hermes and Herves Transposable Elements of Insects......Page 77
Improving the Ecological Safety of Transgenic Insects for Field Release: New Vectors for Stability and Genomic Targeting......Page 89
Development of an Embryonic Lethality System in Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis......Page 101
New Sexing Strains for Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capitata: Transforming Females into Males......Page 111
Developing Transgenic Sexing Strains for the Release of Non-Transgenic Sterile Male Codling Moths Cydia pomonella......Page 119
Sex Chromatin Body as a Cytogenetic Marker of W Chromosome Aberrations in Cydia\rpomonella Females......Page 129
Potential Use of a Conditional Lethal Transgenic Pink Bollworm Pectinophora in Area-Wide Eradication or Suppression Programmes......Page 135
Wolbachia-Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility to Control Insect Pests?......Page 141
Symbiosis-Based Technological Advances to Improve Tsetse Glossina spp. SIT Application......Page 153
Colony Maintenance and Mass-Rearing: Using Cold Storage Technology for Extending the Shelf-Life of Insects......Page 165
Improving the Efficacy of the Sterile Insect Technique for Fruit Flies by Incorporation of Hormone and Dietary Supplements into  Adult Holding Protocols......Page 179
Unfaithful Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis Females: Impact on the SIT?......Page 191
Assessing Genetic Variation in New World Screwworm Cochliomyia hominivorax Populations from Uruguay......Page 199
Emerging Mosquito-Borne Flaviviruses in Central Europe: Usutu Virus and Novel West Nile Viruses......Page 209
Section 3 Modelling and Methods Development......Page 213
The Role of Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis in Area-Wide Vector Control Programmes......Page 215
Optimizing Strategies for Eradication ofDiscrete-Generation Lepidopteran Pests Using Inherited Sterility......Page 225
A Diffusion Model for Glossina palpalis gambiensis in Burkina Faso......Page 237
Current Advances in the Use of Cryogenics and Aerial Navigation Technologies for Sterile Insect Delivery Systems......Page 245
Area-Wide IPM for Commercial Wheat Storage......Page 255
Development, Validation and Use of a Simulation Model to Deliver National Predictions of Ovine Cutaneous Myiasis Risk in the British Isles......Page 263
Problems with the Management of the Golden Apple Snail Pomacea canaliculata: an Important Exotic Pest of Rice in Asia......Page 273
Mass-Rearing and Field Performance of Irradiated Carob Moth Ectomyelois ceratoniae in Tunisia......Page 281
Autodissemination of Semiochemicals and Pesticides: a New Concept Compatible with the Sterile Insect Technique......Page 291
Section 4 Feasibility Studies......Page 299
Strategies to Control the Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria......Page 301
The Mountain Pine Beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae in Western North America: Potential for Area-Wide Integrated Management......Page 313
A Strategy for an Area-Wide Control Campaign with an SIT Component to Establish a\rTsetse- (Glossina austeni and Glossina brevipalpis) Free South Africa......Page 325
Area-Wide Control of Tsetse and Trypanosomosis: Ethiopian Experience in the Southern Rift Valley......Page 341
Don\'t Let Cacto Blast Us: Development of a Bi-National Plan to Stop the Spread of the\rCactus Moth Cactoblastis cactorum in North America......Page 353
Preventive Programme Against the Cactus Moth Cactoblastis cactorum in Mexico......Page 361
Area-Wide Control Tactics for the False Codling Moth Thaumatotibia leucotreta in South Africa: a Potential Invasive Species......Page 367
SIT for the Malaria Vector Anopheles arabiensis in Northern State, Sudan: an Historical\rReview of the Field Site......Page 377
Integrated Management of Rice Stem Borers in the Yangtze Delta, China......Page 389
Management of Cotton Insect Pests in Tajikistan......Page 399
Insecticidal Wound Treatment of Livestock on Isla de la Juventud, Cuba: an Efficient Suppression Method of New World Screwworm C......Page 409
Section 5 Commercialization and Regulation......Page 421
Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes and Agricultural Trade: Challenges and Opportunities for Regulatory Plant Protection......Page 423
Systems Approaches as Phytosanitary Measures: Techniques and Case Studies......Page 433
Postharvest Phytosanitary Radiation Treatments: Less-Than-Probit 9, Generic Dose, and High Dose Applications......Page 441
Tools for the Trade: the International Business of the SIT......Page 451
Privatizing the SIT: a Conflict Between Business and Technology?......Page 465
Private Sector Investment in Mediterranean\rFruit Fly Mass-Production and SIT\rOperations – The “Sheep” of the Private\rSector Among the “Wolves” of the Public\rGood?......Page 473
Section 6 Pilot Programmes......Page 489
Assessment of the Sterile Insect Technique to Manage Red Palm Weevil Rhynchophorus\rferrugineus in Coconut......Page 491
Area-Wide Suppression of Invasive Fire Ant Solenopsis spp. Populations......Page 503
A Cultural Method for the Area-Wide Control of Tarnished Plant Bug Lygus lineolaris in\rCotton......Page 513
Use of the Sterile Insect Technique Against Aedes albopictus in Italy: First Results of a\rPilot Trial......Page 521
Area-Wide Integrated Control of Oriental Fruit Fly Bactrocera dorsalis and Guava Fruit Fly Bactrocera correcta in Thailand......Page 533
Establishment of a Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capitata, Fruit Fly Parasitoids and\rCodling Moth Cydia pomonella Rearing Facility in North-Eastern Brazil......Page 543
Pilot Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capitata Rearing Facility in Tunisia: Constraints\rand Prospects......Page 551
Section 7 Operational AWIPM Programmes......Page 561
Progress of Boll Weevil Anthonomus grandis Eradication in the United States of America, 2005......Page 563
Regional Management Strategy for Cotton Bollworm Helicoverpa armigera in China......Page 575
Integrated Systems for Control of the Pink Bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella in Cotton......Page 583
Pulling Out the Evil by the Root: the Codling Moth Cydia pomonella Eradication Programme in Brazil......Page 597
Suppression of the Codling Moth Cydia pomonella in British Columbia, Canada Using an\rArea-Wide Integrated Approach with an SIT Component......Page 607
Eradication of the Australian Painted Apple Moth Teia anartoides in New Zealand:\rTrapping, Inherited Sterility, and Male Competitiveness......Page 619
Area-Wide Management of the Formosan Subterranean Termite Coptotermes formosanus\rin New Orleans’ French Quarter......Page 633
A Multi-Institutional Approach to Create Fruit Fly-Low Prevalence and Fly-Free Areas in Central America......Page 643
The Fruit Fly Exclusion Programme in Chile......Page 657
Expansion of the National Fruit Fly Control Programme in Argentina......Page 669
The Augmentative Biological Control Component in the Mexican National Campaign Against Anastrepha spp. Fruit Flies......Page 677
The Hawaii Area-Wide Fruit Fly Pest Management Programme: Influence of Partnerships and a Good Education Programme......Page 687
Area-Wide Management of Fruit Flies in Australia......Page 701
Five Years of Mosquito Control in Northern Greece......Page 715
The Carribean Amblyomma variegatum Eradication Programme: Success or Failure?......Page 725
Section 8 Lessons Learned......Page 737
Lessons from Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (AW-IPM) Programmes with an SIT Component: an FAO/IAEA Perspective......Page 739
Author Index......Page 760
Subject Index......Page 765