Conservation Biological Control.(Review)

Ecology;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......timeliness of Conservation biological control, edited by Pedro Barbosa...environmentally friendly is classical biological control. The USDA has accelerated agency efforts to provide biological control solutions to the management...biocontrol agents. Classical biological ...

FARMING: Defra likely to use `biological control' against invasive...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  April 14, 2003 ;     313 words ...USING the natural enemies of invasive weeds, like...Defra. The use of these natural enemies to control costly, destructive...This approach, known as biological control, could greatly reduce...project investigating the biological control of this weed. As a result...invasive ...

Plant-Microbe Interactions and Biological Control.(Review)

Crop Science;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Plant-Microbe Interactions and Biological Control. Edited by G.L. BOLAND AND L.D. KUYKENDALL...prominent researchers in the field of biological control and rhizobial plant interactions...this book cover a wide spectrum of biological control applications and systems. In particular...

Biological control of marine pests. (Special Features)

Ecology;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......knowledge concerning biological control, and a track record...notable failures. Biological control for these pest problems...generally come free of natural enemies (parasitic castrators...for research on biological control of marine pests...use of terrestrial ...

Invasive Plants of Asian Origin Established in the United States and Their...

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society;  April 1, 2005 ;     516 words ......United States and Their Natural Enemies, Volume 1. Hao Zheng...Sciences Institute of Biological Control, Beijing, 100081 P...United States and their Natural Enemies, Volume I describes...listing all the known natural enemies of each plant...extensive lists of ...

How risky is biological control? Comment. (response to D. Simberloff and...

Ecology;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......a paper How risky is biological control? (Simberloff and Stiling...risk of dispersal of biological control agents to areas that...that introduction of biological control agents is risky, and...

Texas A&M researchers introduce natural enemies for ant control

University Wire;  February 8, 2000 ;     473 words ......carefully introducing natural enemies of the imported...Research on so-called biological control of the ant make...said. The lack of natural enemies in the U.S. is thought...is thought that biological control of the insects could...professor of entomology. ...

Benefits of Classical Biological Control for Managing Invasive Plants

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......risks involved in biological control in general are...benefit-cost analysis, natural enemies, nontarget effects...role of classical biological control in the management...advantages of biological control in terms of its...overall safety of biological ...

Enhancing Biological Control: Habitat Management to Promote Natural...

Northeastern Naturalist;  January 1, 1999 ;     105 words ...Enhancing Biological Control: Habitat Management to Promote Natural Enemies of Agricultural Pests. Charles H. Pickett and Robert L. Bugg (Eds.). 1998. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. 433 pp...

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: Biological control offers hope fo for fighting fire...

M2 Presswire;  September 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ......UNIVERSITY: Biological control offers hope...Texas -- is biological control, said Dr. Bart...Ant Project. Biological control holds great...Week Classical biological control is the practice...diseases -- called natural enemies -- and re-introducing...of the ...

Managing tropical rice pests through conservation of generalists natural...

Ecology;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION Most biological control programs focus on promoting one or two premier natural enemies as agents for the suppression of particular pests. In contrast, we argue that consistently high levels of natural biological control may often result from a complex set of ...

110 years of federal biological control research.

M2 Presswire;  November 27, 2000 ;     440 words ......ARS: 110 years of federal biological control research (C)1994-2000 M2...marked more than a century of biological control research with the publication of 110 Years of Biological Control Research and Development...that USDA's contribution to biological control research ...

How risky is biological control?(Special Features)

Ecology;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......non-indigenous species introduced for biological control purposes. Howarth (1983, 1985, 1991...attracted vigorous rebuttals from biological-control practitioners who argue that the...that there is no inherent reason why biological control is risky, and that existing protocols...

CORNELL TAKES AIM AT AQUATIC WEEDS; SCIENTISTS WILL SEE IF NATURAL ENEMIES...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  May 30, 2002 ;     490 words ......study ways to conduct biological warfare against two aquatic...director of Cornell's Biological Control of Non-Indigenous Plant...Skaneateles Lake group. Using biological means to curtail the...plants tend to leave their natural enemies behind, Blossey said...he said. Two of its ...

STUDIES MAY BUG LOCAL AQUATIC-PLANT PESTS; SCIENTISTS WILL SEE IF NATURAL...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  May 3, 2002 ;     490 words ......study ways to conduct biological warfare against two aquatic...director of Cornell's Biological Control of Non-Indigenous Plant...Skaneateles Lake group. Using biological means to curtail the...plants tend to leave their natural enemies behind, Blossey said...he said. Two of its ...