Pest Control: Operations and Systems Analysis in Fruit Fly Management

Abstract

I. Research Recommendations.- II. Policy, Economics and Operations.- Perspectives on Future Integrated Management of Fruit Flies in Mexico.- Process Analysis and Failure Avoidance in Fruit Fly Programs.- An Economic Model to Measure Costs and Benefits of Eradication.- Differential Perceptions between Citizens and Scientists Regarding Pesticides Use.- Feasibility Assessment of Pest Management.- III. Biology.- Evaluation of Color and Food-Odor Trapping Methods in the Olive Fruit Fly.- Some Issues in Fruit Fly Ecology.- Mediterranean Fruit Fly Associated Bacteria: Transmission and Larval Survival.- The Role of Sex Pheromones in the Control of the Olive Fruit Fly, Dacusoleae: Present Status-Prospects.- Selection for Fast and Slow Mating Lines in the Medfly and Analysis of Elements of Courtship Behavior.- Some Observations on the Competitiveness of Sterilized Mediterranean Fruit Fly.- Pheromone Communication in the Mediterranean Fruit Fly (CeratitiscapitataWeid.).- Competition of Urophora stylata F. and Terellia serratulae L. (Dipt., tephritidae) in the Flowerheads of Cirsium vulgare.- Genetic Sexing and Translocations in Ceratitiscapitata.- Trials to Establish Quality Control Method of Mass-Reared and Irradiated Flies in the Field.- IV. Modeling and Analysis.- Interrelations and Applications of Mathematical Demography to Selected Problems in Fruit Fly Management.- Statistics to Find Spatial and Temporal Structures in Populations.- The Effect of Demographic Factors on the Population Dynamics of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly.- Interfacing Biology and Systems Analysis in Pest Management.- Trapping and Information in Fruit Fly Management.- Pests and Population Models: Fluctuations, Equilibrium and Persistence.- The Sterile Insect Technique: A Theoritical Perspective.- Analysis of Spatial Distribution in Fruit Fly Eradication.- Control Strategies Designed to Reduce the Chance of Resistance with Special Reference to Tephritid Fruit Flies.- Some Analytical Models for Biotechnical Methods of Pest Control.- V. Proceedings of the Afternoon Workshops.