Management of Insect Pests with Semiochemicals: Concepts and Practice

Session I. Biomonitoring.- 1 Practical Application of Pheromones in Regulatory Pest Management Programs.- 2 Monitoring the Boll Weevil in Technical and Commercial Operations.- 3 Recent Developments in the Use of Pheromones to Monitor Plodia interpunctella and Ephestia cautella.- 4 Biomonitoring for Stored-Product Insects.- 5 The Use of Pheromone Traps to Monitor Distribution and Population Trends of the Gypsy Moth.- 6 Monitoring Codling Moth Populations in British Columbia Apple Orchards.- 7 Monitoring for the Angoumois Grain Moth in Corn.- 8 Sex Attractant Traps: Their Role in the Management of Spruce Budworm.- 9 Future Thrusts for Development of Insect Sex Pheromones as Monitoring Tools.- Session II. Mass Trapping.- 10 The "3-Body" Problem Analogy in Mass-Trapping Programs.- 11 Suppression of Dendroctonus brevicomis by Using a Mass-Trapping Tactic.- 12 Pheromone-Baited Traps and Trap Trees in the Integrated Management of Bark Beetles in Urban Areas.- 13 Pheromone-Based Suppression of Ambrosia Beetles in Industrial Timber Processing Areas.- 14 Deployment of Traps in a Barrier Strategy to Reduce Populations of the European Elm Bark Beetle, and the Incidence of Dutch Elm Disease.- 15 Practical Results from the Mass-Trapping of Ips typographus in Scandinavia.- 16 Mass Trapping for Suppression of Japanese Beetles.- 17 Mass Trapping for Detection, Suppression and Integration with other Suppression Measures Against the Boll Weevil.- 18 Future Thrusts for Developing and Utilizing Mass-Trapping Technology.- Session III. Mating Disruption.- 19 Mating Disruption of Lepidopterous Pests: Current Status and Future Prospects.- 20 Small-Plot Disorientation Tests for Screening Potential Mating Disruptants.- 21 Field and Laboratory Evaluation of Mating Disruptants of Heliothis zea and Spodoptera frugiperda in Florida.- 22 Evaluation of Microencapsulated Formulations of Pheromone Components of the Egyptian Cotton Leafworm in Crete.- 23 Pink Bollworm and Tobacco Budworm Mating Disruption Studies on Cotton.- 24 Research and Development of Pheromones for Insect Control with Emphasis on the Pink Bollworm.- 25 Formate Pheromone Mimics as Mating Disruptants of the Striped Rice Borer Moth, Chilo suppressalis (Walker).- 26 Disruption of Sex Pheromone Communication in Chilo suppressalis with Pheromone and Analogs.- 27 Field Experiments to Develop Control of the Grape Moth, Eupoecilia ambiguella, by Communication Disruption.- 28 Disruption of Spruce Budworm Mating - State of the Art.- 29 Control of Moth Pests by Mating Disruption in Forests of the Western United States.- 30 Disruption of Southern Pine Beetle Infestations with Attractants and Inhibitors.- 31 Disruption of Long-Distance Pheromone Communication in the Oriental Fruit Moth: Camouflaging the Natural Aerial Trails from Females?.- 32 Future Thrusts on Mating Disruption of Pest Insects with Semiochemicals.- Session IV. Formulation, Toxicology, and Registration.- 33 Formulation and Regulation: Constraints on the Development of Semiochemicals for Insect Pest Management.- 34 Position of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency on Regulation of Biorational Pesticides.- 35 Methodology for Determining the Release Rates of Pheromones from Hollow Fibers.- 36 The Hereon Dispenser Formulation and Recent Test Results.- 37 Formulation, Toxicology and Regulation: Future Thrusts for Development of Semiochemicals in Insect Pest Control.- Session V. Oviposition Disruptants and Antiaggregants.- 38 Oviposition-Deterring Pheromone of the European Cherry Fruit Fly: Status of Research and Potential Applications.- 39 Elucidation and Employment of Semiochemicals in the Manipulation of Entomophagous Insects.- 40 Oviposition-Deterring Pheromone System of Apple Maggot Flies.- Contributors.- Scientific Name.- Common Name.- Chemicals.