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Quality Control and Production of Biological Control Agents Theory and Testing Procedures Edited by J.C. van Lenteren Laboratory ...

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Contents Contributors vii Preface ix Acknowledgements xi PART I. QUALITY CONTROL FOR NATURAL ENEMIES Need for Quality Control o ...

SECTION IV. MASS-PRODUCED NATURAL ENEMIES Commercial Availability of Biological Control Agents 167 J.C. van Lenteren Mass Produ ...

Contributors D. Babendreier, Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture, Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8046 Zuri ...

N.C. Leppla,Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Natural Area Drive, PO Box 110630, Gainesville, FL 3 ...

Preface The use of biological control agents is increasing worldwide and there are now many companies mass producing and selling ...

cheaper to produce in mass rearing than sexuals, and (ii) in classical biocontrol projects they are more easily established. In ...

Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to thank all participants in the EC programme ‘Designing and implementing quality co ...

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1 Need for Quality Control of Mass- produced Biological Control Agents J.C. van Lenteren Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen Un ...

Two forms of periodic releases with nat- ural enemies are generally distinguished: the inundative and the seasonal inoculative m ...

sites, more than 5–10 million individuals per species per week are produced (van Lenteren and Woets, 1988; van Lenteren and Tomm ...

personal communication). Currently, more than 75% of all activities in commercial aug- mentative biocontrol (expressed in moneta ...

facilities), Cuba (more than 200 facilities), Mexico (30 facilities) and Peru (more than 20 facilities). For prices of natural e ...

Mass-Reared Arthropods’ (Bigler, 1991), in Wageningen, The Netherlands, formed the starting-point for a heated discussion among ...

Symposium on Trichogrammaand other egg parasites (Voegele et al., 1988), in five papers by Chinese in Wajnberg and Vinson (1991) ...

quality of the population. The overall quality of an organism can be defined as the ability to function as intended after releas ...