International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods

1st International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods. USDA-Forest Service FHTET-03-05. June 2003.

Day 5: Classical Biological Control

SESSION 13 - IMPORTATION BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
Organizers: Tom Bellows (University of California at Riverside) and Tom Unruh (USDA-ARS, Yakima, Washington)

• Bellows, T.S. : Keynote presentation
       Biological control: lessons from the trenches [ABSTRACT ONLY]
• Nechols, J.R.
       Biological control of the spherical mealybug on Guam and in the Northern Marianas Islands:
       a classic example of fortuitous biological control
• Goldson, S.L. and N.D. Barlow
       Biological control lessons from a depauperate ecosystem [ABSTRACT ONLY]
• Kathirithamby, J. and R. Caudwell
       Strepsiptera (Insecta) as biological control agents [ABSTRACT ONLY]

SESSION 14 - IMPORTATION BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
Organizers: Tom Bellows (University of California at Riverside) and Tom Unruh, (USDA-ARS, Yakima, Washington)

• Michaud, J.P.
       Three targets of classical biological control in the Caribbean:
       success, contribution, and failure
• Borgemeister, C., H. Schneider, H. Affognon, F. Schulthess, A. Bell, M.E. Zweigert, H.-M. Poehling, and M. Sétamou
       Impact assessment of Teretrius nigrescens Lewis (Col.: Histeridae) in West Africa, a predator
       of the larger grain borer Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Col: Bostrichidae)
• Takagi, Masami
       Biological control of citrus scale pests in Japan
• Dahlsten, D., D.L. Rowney, K.L. Robb, J.A. Downer, D.A. Shaw, and J.N. Kabashima
       Biological control of introduced psyllids on eucalyptus

SESSION 15 - MONITORING FOR EFFECTS OF BIOCONTROL AGENTS ON NONTARGET ORGANISMS
Organizer: Russell Messing (Department of Entomology, University of Hawaii at Manoa)

• Messing, R. and J.J. Duan
       Improving predictability in non-target risk assessment: can we characterize the selection
       pressures that lead to parasitoid host shifts? [ABSTRACT ONLY]
• Froud, K.J. and P.S. Stevens
       Importation biological control of Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) by
       Thripobius semiluteus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) in New Zealand
       – a case study of non-target host and environmental risk assessment
• Kuhlmann, U. and P.G. Mason
       Use of field host range surveys for selecting candidate non-target species for
       physiological host specificity testing of entomophagous biological control agents
• Barratt, B.I.P., C.B.Phillips, C.M. Ferguson, and S.L. Goldson
       Predicting non-target impacts of parasitoids: where to go from here?

SESSION 16 - IMPORTATION BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
Organizers: Tom Bellows (University of California at Riverside) and Tom Unruh (USDA-ARS, Yakima, Washington)

• Daane, K. M., R. Malakar-Kuenen, M. Guillén, W. J. Bentley, M. Bianchi, and D. Gonzalez
       Abiotic and biotic pest refuges hamper biological control of mealybugs in California vineyards
• Coombs, M.
       Post-release evaluation of Trichopoda giacomellii (Diptera: Tachinidae) for efficacy
       and non-target effects
• Moriya, Seiichi, Masakazu Shiga, and Ishizue Adachi
       Classical biological control of the chestnut gall wasp in Japan
• Kenis, M., T. Haye, R.A. Casagrande, M.S. Gold, and L.A. Tewksbury
       Selection and importation of European parasitoids for the biological control of the lily leaf
       beetle in North America, and prospects for control in Europe

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