Insect Pest Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXI

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2. Biorational Insecticides — Mechanisms, Selectivity and Importance in Pest Management

   • A. R. Horowitz, I. Ishaaya

   Pages 1-28

3. New Applications for Neonicotinoid Insecticides Using Imidacloprid as an Example

   • A. Elbert, A. Nauen

   Pages 29-44

4. The Spatial Dimension in the Ecology of Insect Pests and Its Relevance to Pest Management

   • D. Nestel, J. Carvalho, E. Nemny-Lavy

   Pages 45-63

5. Resistance Management for Sustainable Use of Bacillus thuringiensis Crops in Integrated Pest Management

   • Y. Carrière, M. S. Sisterson, B. E. Tabashnik

   Pages 65-95

6. Implementing Integrated Pest Management in Australian Cotton

   • L. J. Wilson, R. K. Mensah, G. P. Fitt

   Pages 97-118

7. Area-Wide Management of Insects Infesting Cotton

   • D. D. Hardee, T. J. Henneberry

   Pages 119-140

8. Integrated Pest Management for Insect Pests of Cotton in Less Developed Countries

   • D. Russell

   Pages 141-179

9. Advances in Insect Pest Management of Oilseed Rape in Europe

   • I. H. Williams

   Pages 181-208

10. Recent Advances and Developments in Corn Integrated Pest Managment

    • R. R. Youngman, S. Tiwari

    Pages 209-245

11. Advances in United States Sweet Corn and Snap Bean Insect Pest Management

    • W. D. Hutchison, B. Flood, J. A. Wyman

    Pages 247-278

12. Integrated Pest Management in Vegetables and Ornamentals in the Western United States

    • M. W. Johnson, N. C. Toscano, J. Palumbo, H. Costa

    Pages 279-299

13. Physical Control in Greenhouses and Field Crops

    • P. G. Weintraub, M. J. Berlinger

    Pages 301-318

14. Ultraviolet-Absorbing Barriers, an Efficient Integrated Pest Management Tool to Protect Greenhouses from Insects and Virus Diseases

    • Y. Antignus, D. Ben-Yakir

    Pages 319-335

15. Back Matter

    Pages 337-344

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In the middle of the twentieth century, new insecticides were being con­ stantly developed and it seemed that pesticides would be able to control insect pests indefinitely. In fact, from the 1950s to the 1980s, pest control was mostly based on conventional insecticides such as organochlorines, organo­ phosphates, carbamates and pyrethroids. However, the severe adverse effects of pesticides on the environment, the resistance problems reaching crisis pro­ portions and public protests led to stricter regulations and legislation aimed at reducing the use of pesticides. Consequently, other ways to manage insects have been suggested, such as the use of biorational pesticides with minimal adverse effects on the environment, biological control, host-plant resistance to pests, mating disruption with pheromones, and cultural and physical con­ trol. The ideas behind "integrated control" were published at the end of the 1950s by groups of entomologists from California, and served as a basis for initiating integrated pest management (IPM) in the 1970s. Since the 1980s, insecticide resistant management (IRM) programs have been introduced as a result of increasing problems of resistance to pesticides. IPM programs were strengthened as the awareness of environmental fragility intensified. Since the late 1990s, advanced approaches to manage insect pests have been devel­ oped. One of the novel and exciting innovations in the study of plant resis­ tance to pests has been the introduction of genetically engineered or trans­ genic plants.

• Bt-Transgenic Crops
• Field Crop Pests
• IPM
• corn
• crop protection
• development
• ecology
• entomology
• growth
• insect
• insecticide
• insects

• Department of Entomology, Agricultural Research Organization Gilat Research Center, M. P. Negev, Israel

  A. Rami Horowitz

• Department of Entomology, Agricultural Research Organization The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

  Isaac Ishaaya

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