Pest Management In Transition

Pieter de Jong is on the staff of the Wright-Ingraham Institute (Colorado Springs, Colorado), a nonprofit educational organization concerned with the conservation, preservation, and use of human and natural resources.

• Preface -- Introduction -- Overview -- Current Practices in Insect Pest Control -- Pest Management in the Interior West -- Regional Pest Problems -- Views on Pest Management -- Regional Programs in Integrated Pest Management -- Control Strategies -- Biological Control by Natural Enemies -- Cultural Control -- Pheromones as Third Generation Pesticides -- Breeding Insect Resistance in Plants: A Case Study of Wheat and Hessian Fly -- The Role of Chemicals in Integrated Pest Management -- Implementation -- Implementation of Integrated Pest Management Programs -- Economics of Pest Management -- Emerging Federal Policies on Pesticides -- USDA Perspectives on Pest Management -- Marking the Transition to an Urban IPM Program -- Current and Future Research Needs -- Agenda -- Conference Participants