BL 34D - Crop Ecology

Semester 2 1997-98

Lectures 22 and 23 - Methods of Pest Control

Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook - the University of Minnesota's electronic textbook of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) featuring contributed chapters by internationally recognized experts.
Chapters include:-

• Potential for Biological Control of Crop Pests in the Caribbean
• The Sterile Insect Release Method and Other Genetic Control Strategies
• Cultural Control
• Sugarcane IPM
• Economic Thresholds and Economic Injury Levels
• An Introduction to Insecticides

Integrated Pest Management - Course at Cornell University. "IPM tactics" gives descriptions of the control methods available.

Other Links

• Neem and environment
• Area-wide integration of lepidopteran F1 sterility and augmentative biological control.