Description
This book provides recent contributions of current strategies to control insect pests written by experts in their respective fields. Topics include semiochemicals based insect management techniques, assessment of lethal dose/concentrations, strategies for efficient biological control practices, bioinsecticidal formulations and mechanisms of action involving RNAi technology, light-trap collection of insects, the use of sex pheromonal components and attractants for pest insect capture, measures to increase plant resistance in forest plantations, the use of various baculoviruses as biopesticides, and effect of a pathogenic bacterium against an endangered butterfly species. There are several other chapters that focus on insect vectors, including biting midges as livestock vectors in Tunisia, mosquitoes as vectors in Brazil, human disease vectors in Tanzania, pathogenic livestock and human vectors in Africa, insect vectors of Chagas disease, and transgenic and paratransgenic biotechnologies against dipteran pests and vectors.
This book targets general biologists, entomologists, ecologists, zoologists, virologists, and epidemiologists, including both teachers and students.
Contents
Chapter 1 Semiochemicals and Their Potential Use in Pest Management by Hamadttu Abdel Farag El-Shafie and Jose Romeno Faleiro
Chapter 2 The Sublethal Effects of Insecticides in Insects by Solange M. de França, Mariana O. Breda, Douglas R. S. Barbosa,
Alice M. N. Araujo and Carolina A. Guedes
Chapter 3 Conservation Biological Control Practices by Nabil El-Wakeil, Mahmoud Saleh, Nawal Gaafar and Huda
Elbehery
Chapter 4 In Search of New Methodologies for Efficient Insect Pest Control: “The RNAi “Movement” by Anna Kourti, Luc Swevers and Dimitrios Kontogiannatos
Chapter 5 Light-Trap Catch of Insects in Connection with Environmental Factors by László Nowinszky and János Puskás
Chapter 6 Reinvestigation of Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Sex Pheromone for Improved Attractiveness and Greater Specificity by Juan Cibrián‐Tovar, Jim Carpenter, Stephen Hight, Thom Potter, Guillermo Logarzo and Julio César Velázquez‐González
Chapter 7 Insects Associated with Reforestation and Their Management in Poland by Iwona Skrzecz Chapter 8 Determination of Nucleopolyhedrovirus’ Taxonomic Position by Yu-Shin Nai, Yu-Feng Huang, Tzu-Han Chen, Kuo-Ping Chiu and Chung-Hsiung Wan
Chapter 9 Detection of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Apollo Butterfly (Parnassius apollo, Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) Individual from a Small, Isolated, Mountain Population by Kinga Łukasiewicz, Marek Sanak and Grzegorz Węgrzyn Chapter 10 Culicoides spp. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Tunisia by Darine Slama, Hamouda Babba and Emna Chaker
Chapter 11 Transmission of Major Arboviruses in Brazil: The Role of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus Vectors by Thaís Chouin-Carneiro and Flavia Barreto dos Santos
Chapter 12 Major Disease Vectors in Tanzania: Distribution, Control and Challenges by Eliningaya J. Kweka, Epiphania E. Kimaro, Esther G. Kimaro, Yakob P. Nagagi and Imna I. Malele
Chapter 13 The African Chrysops by Marc K. Kouam and Joseph Kamgno
Chapter 14 Functional Anatomy of the External and Internal Reproductive Structures in Insect Vectors of Chagas Disease with Particular Reference to Rhodnius prolixus by Ralem Gary Chiang and Jennifer Ann Chiang
Chapter 15 Developing the Arsenal Against Pest and Vector Dipterans: Inputs of Transgenic and Paratransgenic Biotechnologies by Christian E. Ogaugwu and Ravi V. Durvasula