"Biological Control of Pest and Vector Insects" ed. by Vonnie D.C. Shields

This book provides recent contributions of current strategies to control insect pests written by experts in their respective fields. This book targets general biologists, entomologists, ecologists, zoologists, virologists, and epidemiologists, including both teachers and students.

Topics include semiochemicals based insect management techniques, assessment of lethal dose/concentrations, strategies for efficient biological control practices, bioinsecticidal formulations and mechanisms of action involving RNAi technology, light-trap collection of insects, the use of sex pheromonal components and attractants for pest insect capture, measures to increase plant resistance in forest plantations, the use of various baculoviruses as biopesticides, and effect of a pathogenic bacterium against an endangered butterfly species. There are several other chapters that focus on insect vectors, including biting midges as livestock vectors in Tunisia, mosquitoes as vectors in Brazil, human disease vectors in Tanzania, pathogenic livestock and human vectors in Africa, insect vectors of Chagas disease, and transgenic and paratransgenic biotechnologies against dipteran pests and vectors.

Contents
Preface
1 Semiochemicals and Their Potential Use in Pest Management
2 The Sublethal Effects of Insecticides in Insects
3 Conservation Biological Control Practices
4 In Search of New Methodologies for Efficient Insect Pest Control: “The RNAi “Movement”
5 Light-Trap Catch of Insects in Connection with Environmental Factors
6 Reinvestigation of Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Sex Pheromone for Improved Attractiveness and Greater Specificity
7 Insects Associated with Reforestation and Their Management in Poland
8 Determination of Nucleopolyhedrovirus’ Taxonomic Position
9 Detection of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Apollo Butterfly (Parnassius apollo, Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) Individuals from a Small, Isolated, Mountain Population
10 Culicoides spp. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Tunisia
11 Transmission of Major Arboviruses in Brazil: The Role of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus Vectors
12 Major Disease Vectors in Tanzania: Distribution, Control and Challenges
13 The African Chrysops
14 Functional Anatomy of the External and Internal Reproductive Structures in Insect Vectors of Chagas Disease with Particular Reference to Rhodnius prolixus
15 Developing the Arsenal Against Pest and Vector Dipterans: Inputs of Transgenic and Paratransgenic Biotechnologies