Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- PART 1 Lacewing systematics and ecology
- PART 2 Lacewings in crops
- PART 3 Principles
- Introduction to Part 3
- CHAPTER 11 The use of lacewings in biological control
- CHAPTER 12 Mass-rearing, release techniques, and augmentation
- CHAPTER 13 Features of the nutrition of Chrysopidae larvae and larval artificial diets
- CHAPTER 14 Ecological studies of released lacewings in crops
- CHAPTER 15 Sampling and studying lacewings in crops
- CHAPTER 16 Interactions with plant management strategies
- CHAPTER 17 Lacewings, biological control, and conservation
- PART 4 Case studies
- PART 5 Conclusion
- Taxonomic index
- General index
Introduction to Part 3
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- PART 1 Lacewing systematics and ecology
- PART 2 Lacewings in crops
- PART 3 Principles
- Introduction to Part 3
- CHAPTER 11 The use of lacewings in biological control
- CHAPTER 12 Mass-rearing, release techniques, and augmentation
- CHAPTER 13 Features of the nutrition of Chrysopidae larvae and larval artificial diets
- CHAPTER 14 Ecological studies of released lacewings in crops
- CHAPTER 15 Sampling and studying lacewings in crops
- CHAPTER 16 Interactions with plant management strategies
- CHAPTER 17 Lacewings, biological control, and conservation
- PART 4 Case studies
- PART 5 Conclusion
- Taxonomic index
- General index
Summary
This section of the book gives an outline of the principles behind the successful use of lacewings in crop protection. As such it provides practical information on how best to use lacewings, what happens to lacewings once they are in the field, and how success might be measured.
To these ends the section outlines the use of lacewings in biological control in an historical context, covering failures as well as successes, details ways in which to produce large numbers of lacewings in the laboratory for augmentation purposes, and how to improve the effectiveness of lacewings already in the field. Features of the nutrition of lacewing larvae and adults are covered in more detail as are ecological relations between lacewings and the environment in which they exist.
A large part of this section of book is devoted to the relevant area of the relationship between lacewings and pesticides and the highly topical area of the effects of Bacillus thuringiensis via the ingestion of transgenic corn-fed prey on lacewings is discussed.
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- Lacewings in the Crop Environment , pp. 295Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001