Commercial availability of biological control agents.

By J. C. Lenteren. 2003

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Biological control and sustainable food production (2008, background): “Herbivorous insects and mites have also been used in the biological control of weeds (Bellows & Fisher 1999; van Lenteren 2003).”
It is time to bridge the gap between exploring and exploiting: prospects for utilizing intraspecific genetic variation to optimize arthropods for augmentative pest control – a review (2017, background): “This is reflected by the growing number of species of natural enemies available on the market, the development of technologies to distribute natural enemies, and the refinement of biological control, for example, by combining natural enemies (van Lenteren, 2003, 2012).”
Benefits and risks of exotic biological control agents (2011, unknown): “Adults of this ladybird could be collected in large numbers from overwintering sites precluding the requirement for maintaining long term mass cultures (Gillespie et al. 2002; van Lenteren 2003).”
Benefits and limitations of factitious prey and artificial diets on life parameters of predatory beetles, bugs, and lacewings: a mini-review (2009, background): “Besides predatory mites, these three groups represent a significant number of the predators reared and sold by commercial producers (Cranshaw et al. 1996; van Lenteren 2003).”
Do new Access and Benefit Sharing procedures under the Convention on Biological Diversity threaten the future of biological control? (2010, background): “Success of commercial BC is primarily dependent on the quality of the natural enemies, which are produced by massrearing companies (van Lenteren 2003a).”