Abstract
AbstractThis chapter discusses the major approaches to the biological control of pests in both subsistence and production agriculture. The applications of conservation (modification of environmental factors that may limit the control effectiveness of natural enemies), augmentation (direct manipulation of natural enemy populations to increase their effectiveness as biological control agents), and importation (purposeful reuniting of natural enemies with their hosts/prey that have become pests in areas outside their original geographic distribution) biological control systems are illustrated using case studies on maize in Honduras and Asian rice, Trichogramma in China and Western Europe, and cassava green mite (Mononychellus tanajoa) in Africa, respectively, as examples.
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