Insect-specific paralytic neurotoxin genes for use in biological insect control: Methods and compositions

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. VIII-IX
Keyword(s):  
Insect Control ◽  
Control Methods ◽  
Biological Insect Control

New Machines For Use in a Biological Insect-Control Program

1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 0242-0243 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. W. Gantt ◽  
E. G. King ◽  
D. F. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Control Program ◽  
Insect Control ◽  
Biological Insect Control

scholarly journals Biological insect control using Metarhizium anisopliae: morphological, molecular, and ecological aspects

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Vieira Tiago ◽  
Neiva Tinti de Oliveira ◽  
Elza Áurea de Luna Alves Lima
Keyword(s):  
Entomopathogenic Fungi ◽  
Metarhizium Anisopliae ◽  
Microbial Control ◽  
Intraspecific Variability ◽  
Fungal Species ◽  
Insect Control ◽  
Pest Population ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
Population Structures ◽  
Biological Insect Control

Microbial control of insects is based on the rational use of pathogens to maintain environmentally balanced pest population levels, and Metarhizium anisopliae has been the most studied and most utilized fungal species for that purpose. The natural genetic variability of entomopathogenic fungi is considered one of the principal advantages of microbial insect control. The inter- and intraspecific variability and the genetic diversity and population structures of Metarhizium and other entomopathogenic fungi have been examined using ITS-RFLP, ISSR, and ISSP molecular markers. The persistence of M. anisopliae in the soil and its possible effects on the structures of resident microbial communities must be considered when selecting isolates for biological insect control.

INSECT CONTROL BY ARTIFICIALLY PROLONGING PLANT DORMANCY — A NEW APPROACH

1968 ◽  
Vol 100 (12) ◽  
pp. 1278-1279 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. Eidt ◽  
C. H. A. Little
Keyword(s):  
Host Resistance ◽  
Sensory Perception ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Insect Control ◽  
Control Methods ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Host Insect ◽  
Insect Exclusion ◽  
Insect Parasites

Insect control methods are usually aimed directly at the insects. Examples are insect exclusion, poisons, and the more recent methods which upset metabolism, nervous coordination, sensory perception, or fertility. Some methods are indirect and involve manipulation of insect parasites, predators and diseases, habitat destruction, and host management. Only selection and breeding for host resistance are directed at the host of the insect. This is somewhat surprising because the host–insect relationship presents some of the most vulnerable aspects of the life of an insect.

scholarly journals V-ATPase-energized epithelia and biological insect control.

1992 ◽  
Vol 172 (1) ◽  
pp. 377-386
Author(s):  
M G Wolfersberger
Keyword(s):  
Mode Of Action ◽  
Insect Control ◽  
Ion Pumps ◽  
Bacterial Protein ◽  
And Function ◽  
Biological Insect Control

Background is provided for the experimentally detailed contributions concerning the structure, distribution and function of V-ATPase-based ion pumps in insect epithelia. The mode of action of an insecticidal bacterial protein, which is dependent upon the V-ATPase-energized state in larval lepidopteran midgut for activity, is discussed.

Symposium: Strategy and Tactics of Insect Control: Perspectives on Insect Control

1964 ◽  
Vol 96 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 167-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. N. Smallman
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Insect Control ◽  
Control Methods ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Biological Methods ◽  
Scientific Questions ◽  
Social Affairs

AbstractDuring the past 100 years, insect control has been a predominant objective and influence on the development of entomology in Canada. Preoccupation with the insecticide method of insect control threatened for a while to divert entomologists from the biological bases of their science. But the scientific questions and practical problems raised by insecticides have recently generated a renaissance of biological thinking about insects and ways to control them. Older biological methods and certain promising new ones are receiving increased attention. Insecticides have won a permanent place in our arsenal but we can no longer continue to rely so heavily on this one weapon. A new perspective is emerging in which strategies of insect control will be formulated on the basis of population dynamics studies and will involve assembling from a variety of control methods the appropriate combinations to meet particular problems. The requirements of these combined strategies will impinge increasingly on economic and social affairs which, in turn, will modify the technology of insect control.

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