Balancing Nature: Biological Control Introductions for Invasive Insect Pests and Weeds
A topical collection in Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This collection belongs to the section "Insect Pest and Vector Management".
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Interests: classical and augmentative biological control; searches and introductions of natural enemies of insect pests and weeds; insect biology and mass rearing of fruit fly parasitoids
Topical Collection Information
Dear Colleagues,
Insects and weeds become problematic when accidentally introduced to new environment without their essential natural enemies that keep them in check in native regions. Introductions of biological control agents to such new invaded areas has historically been the main method for environmentally benign nonchemical approaches to reducing pest populations in the management of invasive insect pests and weeds.
This collection invites original articles and reviews for the overall improvement of biological control knowledge of insect pests and weeds. This includes discovery of pest origin, foreign exploration for natural enemies in native lands of pest, importation to containment facilities, pre-release evaluations (e.g., efficacy, host specificity, and climatic adaptability), mass rearing for field releases, and release and documentation of establishments and impacts of introduced natural enemies. Recent cases of importation biological control, success and failure of natural enemy introductions, biology, ecology, behavior, and description of new species of natural enemies will be covered.
Dr. Mohsen M. Ramadan
Dr. Xingeng Wang
Collection Editors
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Keywords
- insect predator
- insect parasitoid
- entomopathogen
- exploration
- importation
- host specificity
- mass rearing
- pre-release
- post-release
- weed biocontrol agent