Quality Control and Production of Biological Control Agents: Theory and Testing Procedures (Cabi Publishing)

Quality Control and Production of Biological Control Agents Theory and Testing Procedures......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1 Need for Quality Control of Massproduced Biological Control Agents......Page 13
2 Aspects of Total Quality Control for the Production of Natural Enemies......Page 31
3 A Variable-response Model for Parasitoid Foraging Behaviour......Page 37
4 Variations in Natural-enemy Foraging Behaviour: Essential Element of a Sound Biological Control Theory......Page 53
5 The Parasitoids’ Need for Sweets: Sugars in Mass Rearing and Biological Control......Page 71
6 Managing Captive Populations for Release: a Population-genetic Perspective......Page 85
7 Adaptive Recovery after Fitness Reduction: the Role of Population Size......Page 101
8 The Use of Unisexual Wasps in Biological Control......Page 105
9 Comparison of Arti.cially vs. Naturally Reared Natural Enemies and Their Potential for Use in Biological Control......Page 127
10 Pathogens of Mass-produced Natural Enemies and Pollinators......Page 145
11 Commercial Availability of Biological Control Agents......Page 179
12 Mass Production, Storage, Shipment and Release of Natural Enemies......Page 193
13 Regulation of Import and Release of Mass-produced Natural Enemies: a Risk-assessment Approach......Page 203
14 Quality Assurance in North America: Merging Customer and Producer Needs......Page 217
15 State of Affairs and Future Directions of Product Quality Assurance in Europe......Page 227
16 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......Page 237
17 Quality of Augmentative Biological Control Agents: a Historical Perspective and Lessons Learned from Evaluating Trichogramma......Page 243
18 Towards the Standardization of Quality Control of Fungal and Viral Biocontrol Agents......Page 259
19 Guidelines for Quality Control of Commercially Produced Natural Enemies......Page 277
20 Basic Statistical Methods for Quality Control Workers......Page 317
Index......Page 327