Biological control is widely successful at controlling pests, but effective biocontrol agents are
now more difficult to import from countries of origin due to more restrictive international trade …

Biopesticides are considered to be the best alternative to synthetic pesticides that are highly
effective, target specific and reduce environmental risks. These factors led to its application …

Food relationships of Coccinellidae have always been actively studied, largely because of
the economic impact of most coccinellid species. Unfortunately the prey-predator …

Baculoviruses have shown to be a good tool for insect pest control. Numerous natural
baculoviruses have been used as biopesticides worldwide as they are naturally occurring …

Intensive application of synthetic pesticides was the routine practice of commercial
agriculture during the Green Revolution to boost agricultural productivity to meet global food …

The impact of increasing human population, rising food demand, and adverse effects of
climate change, viz., changing rainfall pattern, rising temperature, biotic-abiotic stresses …

In this chapter we present how ecologists and biological pest control researchers can
assess the role of natural enemies in pest insect population dynamics, and how the …

Opinions about the value of biological control are often extreme. Colloquially, biological
control most often refers to classical biological control, in which one species is introduced …

Classical biological control is a pest management practice frequently deployed against
invasive insects. However, introduced natural enemies too often fail to establish, and this …

Pseudomonas sp. strain TXG6-1, a chitinolytic gram-negative bacterium, was isolated from a
vegetable field in Taixing city, Jiangsu Province, China. In this study, a Pseudomonas …