Sterile Insect Technique Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management

• Main Authors: Dyck, V. A., Hendrichs, J., Robinson, A. S.
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United States CRC Press 2021; Routledge; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 2
• Subjects: Agribusiness and primary industries; Agricultural science; Agriculture and farming; Applied ecology; Area-wide integrated pest management programmes; Arthropods; Biodiversity; Biology, life sciences; Botany and plant sciences; Codling Moth; Cytoplasmic Incompatibility; Earth sciences; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Entomology; Environmental Conservation & Protection; False Codling Moth; Fly Emergence; Fruit Fly Pests; Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere; Industry and industrial studies; Insect pests; Insect pests > Control; Insect sterilization; Life Sciences; Mathematics and Science; Mating Disruption; Mediterranean Fruit Flies Ceratitis Capitata; Mediterranean Fruit Fly; Melon Fly; Modern molecular technologies; Nature; Nuclear techniques; Pathogens managing; Pest control / plant diseases; Pest Free Area; Science; Sedimentology and pedology; Sit; Sit Programme; South Western USA; Sterile Flies; Sterile Insect; Sterile Insect Releases; Sterile insect technique; Sterile Males; Sterile Males Released; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; The environment; Tsetse Fly; World Screwworm; Zoology; Zoology and animal sciences; Zoology: invertebrates; Sit Programme; Sterile Insect Releases; Mediterranean Fruit Flies Ceratitis Capitata; Fly Emergence; mathematical models; sterile insect technique; geographic information systems; Fruit Fly Pests; SPS Agreement; Tsetse Fly; modern molecular technologies; Melon Fly; Sterile Insect; classical genetic approaches; Mating Disruption; area-wide integrated pest management; Wild Insects; Pink Bollworm; False Codling Moth; Codling Moth; behavioural ecology; post-factory performance; World Screwworm; Cytoplasmic Incompatibility; Sterile Males Released; Sterile Males; spatial modelling; sterile insect quality control; tsetse fly salivary gland hypertrophy virus; Sterile Flies; Fruit Fly; inherited sterility; insect mass-rearing; Mexican Fruit Fly; fruit flies; population suppression; economic evaluation; Mediterranean Fruit Fly; Pest Free Area; genetic sexing systems; South Western USA; insect symbiosis; ionizing radiation; Sit
• ISBN: 1000377768; 9781000377767; 9780367474348; 9780367762261; 0367474344; 0367762269; 1003035574; 9781003035572; 9781000377835; 1000377830
• DOI: 10.1201/9781003035572

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from a scientific perspective. The SIT is applicable to some major pests of plant-, animal-, and human-health importance, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for the SIT. In the second edition, all aspects of the SIT have been updated and the content considerably expanded. A great variety of subjects is covered, from the history of the SIT to improved prospects for its future application. The major chapters discuss the principles and technical components of applying sterile insects. The four main strategic options in using the SIT — suppression, containment, prevention, and eradication — with examples of each option are described in detail. Other chapters deal with supportive technologies, economic, environmental, and management considerations, and the socio-economic impact of AW-IPM programmes that integrate the SIT. In addition, this second edition includes six new chapters covering the latest developments in the technology: managing pathogens in insect mass-rearing, using symbionts and modern molecular technologies in support of the SIT, applying post-factory nutritional, hormonal, and semiochemical treatments, applying the SIT to eradicate outbreaks of invasive pests, and using the SIT against mosquito vectors of disease. This book will be useful reading for students in animal-, human-, and plant-health courses. The in-depth reviews of all aspects of the SIT and its integration into AW-IPM programmes, complete with extensive lists of scientific references, will be of great value to researchers, teachers, animal-, human-, and plant-health practitioners, and policy makers.