Ebook: Management of Insect Pests with Semiochemicals: Concepts and Practice

Perhaps the best expression of our intent in organ~z~ng this gathering is found in the definition of the word colloquy and its derivations. A gathering allowing familiar and informal conversation among colleagues with similar interests was our objective. Our motives were, of course, complex. Our main intent was not, however, to add to the list of books competing for the time of the scientific community at-large. However, while informality was our objective, a lasting document exists in the form of this publication of the presentations forming the skeleton on which we built less formal but meatier communications. We hope you can reconstruct on these bones a perception of the state of the art in the subject at hand. The members of this assemblage are specialists in one or more subdisciplines. Their formal communications are found in texts and journals appropriate to their broader disciplines. Often their friends alone are privy to their less formal thoughts, intuitions, hopes, and especially fears and failures. We hoped by organizing this colloquium to develop familiar and informal conversation among those most interested and active in applying semiochemicals in pest control. That community, like others also shared by Gainesville entomologists, has little or no formal organization or means for assemblage. We proposed on this and future occasions to offer the opportunity to this and similar groups to gather, though we do not presume too much to lead but rather to facilitate conversation.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Practical Application of Pheromones in Regulatory Pest Management Programs....Pages 1-11
Monitoring the Boll Weevil in Technical and Commercial Operations....Pages 13-17
Biomonitoring for Stored-Product Insects....Pages 19-28
The Use of Pheromone Traps to Monitor Distribution and Population Trends of the Gypsy Moth....Pages 29-40
Monitoring Codling Moth Populations in British Columbia Apple Orchards....Pages 41-55
Monitoring for the Angoumois Grain Moth in Corn....Pages 57-62
Sex Attractant Traps: Their Role in the Management of Spruce Budworm....Pages 63-73
Future Thrusts for Development of Insect Sex Pheromones as Monitoring Tools....Pages 75-91
The “3-Body” Problem Analogy in Mass-Trapping Programs....Pages 93-94
Suppression of Dendroctonus Brevicomis by Using a Mass-Trapping Tactic....Pages 95-102
Pheromone-Baited Traps and Trap Trees in the Integrated Management of Bark Beetles in Urban Areas....Pages 103-114
Pheromone-Based Suppression of Ambrosia Beetles in Industrial Timber Processing Areas....Pages 115-131
Deployment of Traps in a Barrier Strategy to Reduce Populations of the European Elm Bark Beetle, and the Incidence of Dutch Elm Disease....Pages 133-154
Practical Results from the Mass Trapping of IPS Typographus in Scandinavia....Pages 155-174
Mass Trapping for Suppression of Japanese Beetles....Pages 175-181
Mass Trapping for Detection, Suppression and Integration with other Suppression Measures Against the Boll Weevil....Pages 183-190
Future Thrusts for Developing and Utilizing Mass-Trapping Technology....Pages 191-203
Mating Disruption of Lepidopterous Pests: Current Status and Future Prospects....Pages 205-206
Small-Plot Disorientation Tests for Screening Potential Mating Disruptants....Pages 207-228
Evaluation of Microencapsulated Formulations of Pheromone Components of the Egyptian Cotton Leafworm in Crete....Pages 229-242
Pink Bollworm and Tobacco Budworm Mating Disruption Studies on Cotton....Pages 243-251
Research and Development of Pheromones for Insect Control with Emphasis on the Pink Bollworm....Pages 253-265
Disruption of Spruce Budworm Mating—State of the Art....Pages 267-283
Control of Moth Pests by Mating Disruption in Forests of the Western United States....Pages 285-303
Disruption of Southern Pine Beetle Infestations with Attractants and Inhibitors....Pages 305-311
Disruption of Long-Distance Pheromone Communication in the Oriental Fruit Moth: Camouflaging the Natural Aerial Trails from Females?....Pages 313-325
Future Thrusts on Mating Disruption of Pest Insects with Semiochemicals....Pages 327-338
Formulation and Regulation: Constraints on the Development of Semiochemicals for Insect Pest Management....Pages 339-349
Position of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency on Regulation of Biorational Pesticides....Pages 351-364
Methodology for Determining the Release Rates of Pheromones from Hollow Fibers....Pages 365-383
The Hercon Dispenser Formulation and Recent Test Results....Pages 385-398
Formulation, Toxicology and Regulation: Future Thrusts for Development of Semiochemicals in Insect Pest Control....Pages 399-401
Oviposition-Deterring Pheromone of the European Cherry Fruit Fly: Status of Research and Potential Applications....Pages 403-420
Elucidation and Employment of Semiochemicals in the Manipulation of Entomophagous Insects....Pages 421-423
Oviposition-Deterring Pheromone System of Apple Maggot Flies....Pages 425-443
Back Matter....Pages 445-453
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