Plenary Lecture: Summing Up

Abstract

In his opening address, Professor Odhiambo referred to the militaristic approach to pest control in which we aim to first know our pest enemies and then destroy them. I would like to take that military analogy further. We certainly need to have good information about our pest enemies, in order to know the weak points that are vulnerable to attack, but we also need good strategies and we need to know our allies in the fight, especially the natural enemies of pest species that operate as a generally unseen resistance force, and our professional allies—the entomologists and other scientists that provide our intelligence reports.