Ebook: Pest Control: Operations and Systems Analysis in Fruit Fly Management

These are the proceedings of an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), sponsored by the NATO Science Panel, entitled "Pest Control: Operations and Systems Analysis in Fruit Fly Management". The ARW was held in Bad Windsheim, Germany during the week of 5 August 1985. The purpose of the ARW was to bring together scientists who are interested in fruit fly problems, but who usually do not have an opportunity to speak with each other, for an intense week of interdisciplinary collaboration. In particular, the group present at the ARW contained a mix of biologists, field ecologists, mathematical modellers, operational program managers, economists and social scientists. Each group has its own professional meetings at which fruit fly problems are discussed, but the point of the ARW was to learn about the problem from the perspective of other fields, which are equally important for the ultimate management of the fruit fly problems. (A list of attendees follows this preface. ) It appears that the ARW successfully met its objective of bringing together a group for interdisciplinary considerations of the problems; I hope that the proceedings do as well. The ARW was structured with formal lectures in the mornings and workshops in the afternoons. For the morning lectures, four different topics were chosen: 1) basic biology and ecology, 2) trapping and detection, 3) control and eradication, and 4) policy issues. Each morning, one lecture from each area was presented.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Research Recommendations by Scientists at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Pest Control: Operations and Systems Analysis in Fruit Fly Management” (5–9 August 1985; Bad Windsheim, Germany)....Pages 3-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Perspectives on Future Integrated Management of Fruit Flies in Mexico....Pages 9-42
Process Analysis and Failure Avoidance in Fruit Fly Programs....Pages 43-65
An Economic Model to Measure Costs and Benefits of Eradication....Pages 67-78
Differential Perceptions between Citizens & Scientists Regarding Pesticide Use....Pages 79-96
Feasibility Assessment of Pest Management....Pages 97-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Evaluation of Color and Food-Odor Trapping Methods in the Olive Fruit Fly....Pages 111-115
Some Issues in Fruit Fly Ecology....Pages 117-133
Mediterranean Fruit Fly Associated Bacteria: Transmission and Larval Survival....Pages 135-146
The Role of Sex Pheromones in the Control of the Olive Fruit Fly, Dacus Oleae: Present Status — Prospects....Pages 147-162
Selection for Fast and Slow Mating Lines in the Medfly and Analysis of Elements of Courtship Behaviour....Pages 163-177
Some Observations on the Competitiveness of Sterilized Mediterranean Fruit Fly....Pages 179-187
PHEROMONE COMMUNICATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY (Ceratitis capitata Weid.)....Pages 189-189
Competition of Urophora Stylata F. and Terellia Serratulae L. (Dipt., Tephritidae) in the Flowerheads of Cirsium Vulgare....Pages 191-199
Trials to Establish Quality Control Method of Mass-Reared and Irradiated Flies in the Field....Pages 201-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-224
Interrelations and Applications of Mathematical Demography to Selected Problems in Fruit Fly Management....Pages 225-225
Statistics to Find Spatial and Temporal Structures in Populations....Pages 227-262
The Effect of Demographic Factors on the Population Dynamics of the Mediterranean Fruit-Fly....Pages 263-282
Interfacing Biology and Systems Analysis in Pest Management....Pages 283-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-314
Trapping and Information in Fruit Fly Management....Pages 225-225
Pests and Population Models: Fluctuations, Equilibrium and Persistence....Pages 315-338
The Sterile Insect Technique: A Theoretical Perspective....Pages 339-359
Analysis of Spatial Distribution in Fruit Fly Eradication....Pages 361-386
Control Strategies Designed to Reduce the Chance of Resistance with Special Reference to Tephritid Fruit Flies....Pages 387-398
Some Analytical Models for Biotechnical Methods of Pest Control....Pages 399-436
Front Matter....Pages 437-444
Proceeding of the Afternoon Workshops....Pages 445-445
Back Matter....Pages 447-465
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