This chapter provides different methods of cultural control of insect pests. Cultural control of insect pests uses manipulation of the environment in such a way as to render it unfavourable for the pest. Many of the methods interfere with the pest's ability to colonize a crop, thus promoting...

This chapter defines integrated pest management and its components, i.e. cultural, biological and chemical controls. Some of the cultural control methods described include sowing of resistant cultivars and crop rotation, as well as application of interference methods (using pheromones and...

This chapter presents information on the major insect pests of organic olive production and the various strategies used in their management, such as biological control, use of behaviour modifying chemicals, insecticides and sterile insect technique, among others.

Biological control in Argentina has a longstanding tradition with records of natural enemy introductions since the beginning of the 20th century, mainly between 1900 and 1940. Eight predators, 70 parasitoids and seven pathogens have been introduced for arthropod control, plus eight weed biocontrol...

This chapter reviews novel technologies for controlling urban mosquito pests and their associated diseases, including impregnated fabrics, polystyrene beads, ovitraps and adult traps, insecticidal paints, sugar baits, entomopathogenic fungi, laser, auto-dissemination systems, nematodes, copepods,...

This chapter focuses on sterile insect technique (SIT) improvement through the use of conditional dominant lethal genes, which can be used for sterilization and/or sex separation. When these conditional lethal genes are transgenes, i.e. constructed using recombinant DNA methods with at least some...

This chapter focuses on the various transgenic approaches in the control of dipteran livestock pests and lepidopteran crop pests based on the sterile insect technique.

This chapter discusses how genetic sterility can be induced by transgenic methods in mosquitoes, with a focus on Anopheles gambiae. It examines mechanisms for inducing sterility that have already been identified or that represent promising targets, and reviews current research on genetic sterility...

This chapter focuses on the use of release of insects carrying a dominant lethal (RIDL) technology in achieving a version of sterility using genetic engineering rather than sterilizing radiation or chemosterilization. The importance of mathematical models in the development and assessment of this...