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Working Groups “Pheromones and other Semiochemicals in Integrated Production” and “Integrated Protection of Fruit Crops” Proceedings of the PheroFruits Joint Meeting “The IFP in the XXI century: tools, tactic and strategies to improve sustainability under pressure of new invasive pests and diseases”, at Girona (Spain), 25-29 September, 2022. Edited by: Lucía-Adriana Escudero-Colomar, Michelle Fountain and Jürgen Gross. ISBN 978-92-9067-353-8 [XVI + 184 pp.].
Working Groups “Pheromones and other Semiochemicals in Integrated Production” and “Integrated Protection of Fruit Crops” Proceedings of the PheroFruits Joint Meeting “The IFP in the XXI century: tools, tactic and strategies to improve sustainability under pressure of new invasive pests and diseases”, at Girona (Spain), 25-29 September, 2022. Edited by: Lucía-Adriana Escudero-Colomar, Michelle Fountain and Jürgen Gross. ISBN 978-92-9067-353-8 [XVI + 184 pp.].
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Working Group “Modern Biotechnology in Integrated Plant Production” Proceedings of the ninth Meeting at Berlin (Germany), 28-30 September, 2022. Edited by Michael Meissle, Ulrike Middelhoff, Detlef Bartsch. ISBN 978-92-9067-350-7 [XIV + 116 pp.].
Aim: to present the history, the current state of affairs and the future of biological control in order to show that this control method is sound, safe and sustainable.
Contents:
Introduction
Discovery of natural enemies and a bit of entomological history
Development of idea to use natural enemies for pest control and classification of types of biological control
History of biological control
Current situation of biological control (including region/country revieuws)
Biological control of weeds
Future of biological control: to be written
Evaluation and ranking of natural enemies: from art to science?
Mass production, storage, shipment and release of natural enemies
Benefits and costs of biologcalcontrol
Commercial and non-commercial producers of natural enemies
Quality control of natural enemies
Artificial rearing of natural enemies and quality control
Legislation and regulation of biological control agents
Environmental risks of natural enemies
Mistakes and misunderstandings about biological control
Integrated Pest Management
Biological and integrated control work better in a systems approach
Books and papers on biological control and IPM
Links to important websites
Acknowledgements Appendix 1. An overview of national and regional biological control books Appendix 2: Glossary Appendix 3: Guidelines for the export, shipment, import and release of biological control agents 2005 Appendix 4: EPPO standard on import and release of natural enemies Appendix 5: White list of natural enemies
New in version 6
New Chapter: Evaluation and ranking of new natural enemies
New Chapter: Benefits and costs of biological control
New Chapter: Environmental risks and risk assessment of natural enemies
New Chapter: Mistakes and misunderstandings about biological control
Appendix 2: Glossary of terms related to biological control
Appendix 3: Guidelines for the export, shipment, import and release of biological control agents (ISPM 3, 2005)
Appendix 4: EPPO standard on import and release of natural enemies
Appendix 5: White list of natural enemies
Additions to Chapter 3 and 4
Aditions to Appendix 1: overview of national and regional biological control book