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Use of biological control measures in the intensive management of insect pests in New Jersey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2009

James H. Lashomb ,
William Metterhouse  and
Robert Chianese
James H. Lashomb
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.
William Metterhouse
Affiliation:
Director of Plant Industry, New Jersey Department of Agriculture, Trenton, NJ 08625.
Robert Chianese
Affiliation:
Chief of Biological Control, New Jersey Department of Agriculture, Trenton, NJ 08625.
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Abstract

The U.S. public is expressing strong preference for the use of biological control methods in the management of U.S. agricultural, forest, and rangeland insect pests. This follows from a widespread understanding among citizens that synthetic insecticides have potentially harmful side effects on humans and that they are spreading increasingly as pollutants in the environment. Major recent increases in the number of pesticide-resistant insect species also put pressure on the agricultural community toward adoption of alternative non-agchemical plant and animal protection strategies. Movement in the direction of such alternatives has been facilitated by the fact that in the last two decades much progress has been made in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) through an improved understanding of the interactions of pests with their hosts. In that time period, many advances have been made in describing and predicting insect movement, seasonal cycles, and the effects of secondary plant compounds on insect reproduction. Simultaneously, much has been learned about the behavior, physiology, and population dynamics of insect parasitoids, i.e. parasites on insect pests. In the 1990's and subsequently, Biological Control Intensive Pest Management (BCIPM) will require continuing research to attain needed advancement in knowledge of growth and development of host plants, population dynamics of pests and parasitoids, and ecology of secondary pests that may interfere with implementation of BCIPM programs. Extension and research personnel will then be increasingly able to devise useful control methods for pests within selected cropping systems. We describe here examples to illustrate present and potential future use of BCIPM in different practical plant systems in New Jersey.

Keywords

integrated pest managementinsect movementseasonal cyclesinsect reproductionparasitoidsforestsornamentalsfruit treesforage and field cropsvegetablessod
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American Journal of Alternative Agriculture , Volume 3 , Issue 2-3 , Spring-Summer 1988 , pp. 77 - 82
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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