Controlling Invertebrate Pests in Agriculture

Controlling Invertebrate Pests in Agriculture discusses the principles of pest management and relates this to historical methods as well as current and future directions. It describes current practice, the concept of agricultural ecosystems, the role of pesticides and cultural control options. A separate chapter covers biological control and the different ways in which this may be implemented. The book provides a detailed examination of the application of pesticides, the different types that are available and how they may be integrated into more holistic approaches.

Jessica Page is currently Assistant Director at IPM Technologies Pty Lt. where she has worked since 1996. In that time Jessica has worked on a great range of crops from glasshouse flowers to wheat, barley and canola. Key publications include the book Integrated Pest Management for Crops and Postures published by Landlinks Press and the article 'When will IPM be adopted?' in Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture. Paul Horne is an entomologist and since 1996 has been owner and Director of IPM Technologies Pty Ltd. He has been involved with the development and implementation of IPM in a wide range of crops including cut flowers, glasshouse crops, vegetables and broad-acre crops. He has conducted research on how to use biological control agents, cultural methods and selective pesticides and, with Jessica Page, has demonstrated to farmers and others just how to make IPM work. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University. Paul has written four books on insects and published over 70 scientific and conference papers on insects and IPM.

Foreword	p. iii
Preface and acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Agricultural ecosystems	p. 1
Before modern pesticides and fertilisers	p. 2
What lives in a crop?	p. 2
Predator-prey cycle	p. 4
Understanding the type of interaction	p. 8
Pesticides	p. 9
Insecticide resistance	p. 10
Cross-resistance	p. 11
Residues in produce; withholding periods	p. 12
Non-target mortality	p. 13
Disruption of biological control (primary and secondary pests)	p. 15
Insecticide resistance and beneficial species	p. 16
Selective insecticides	p. 17
'Safe' insecticides?	p. 19
Insecticide Resistance Management Strategies (IRM)	p. 20
Zero tolerance	p. 21
Pesticides: problems and how they can fit with other management options	p. 22
Pheromones	p. 23
Conclusion: minimal pesticide use	p. 25
Pest species	p. 27
Lifecycles and life stages	p. 27
Pest response when biological control is disrupted	p. 29
When classical biological control is lost	p. 31
When existing biocontrol agents are disrupted	p. 32
Where do pests come from?	p. 33
Beneficial species (biological control agents)	p. 35
Predators or parasitoids	p. 36
Commercially produced beneficials	p. 36
Examples of commercially available beneficial species	p. 37
Lifecycles	p. 38
Movement of beneficial species	p. 39
Naturally occurring beneficial species	p. 39
Common questions about beneficial species	p. 40
Effectiveness of biological control	p. 41
Cultural controls	p. 43
What are cultural controls?	p. 43
Manipulating non-crop plantings for pest management	p. 48
Controlling weeds	p. 50
Plant health	p. 51
Crop hygiene	p. 52
Cocoa pod borer	p. 52
Integrating control measures to maximise degree of control	p. 55
Integrating the three control measures available	p. 55
The role of monitoring	p. 56
Making changes in pest management	p. 57
Decision-making	p. 59
A crisis in pest control	p. 60
Two examples of pest control	p. 66
Changes in scientific assessment	p. 69
Changes in scientific assessment and information loss	p. 70
Factors influencing successful control of pests	p. 71
Future strategies	p. 72
Examples of changing pest management: specific crops	p. 75
Changing to IPM	p. 75
Where a change to IPM did not work	p. 76
'We tried IPM and it did not work'	p. 77
Successful examples of change to IPM	p. 77
A final point	p. 105
Glossary	p. 107
Common and scientific names of species mentioned in this book	p. 108
Species mentioned, listed by scientific name	p. 110
References	p. 112
Index	p. 113
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