Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests

ISBN-13: 9781138477452 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 414 str.

Diana Perez-Staples; Francisco Diaz-Fleischer; Pablo Montoya

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This book supplies the latest research on the biology, management procedures, and control strategies of fruit flies of economic importance. It considers an integrative approach covering topics including behavior, genetics, biological control, integrated pest management, host-plant interactions, trap design, and transgenics of fruit flies.

O autorze

Diana Pérez-Staples is a Research Professor at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, where she has been a faculty member since 2008. Previously she was a postdoc at Macquarie University, Australia. Diana completed her PhD at the Institute of Ecology (INECOL, Mexico), and her masters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She received her undergraduate degree from Reed College, USA. Her research is focused on the sexual behaviour of tephritid fruit flies and other insect pests, and on improving current control methods. Diana has received the L’Oréal-UNESCO fellowship for Women in Science and the Kathleen S. Anderson Award for Promising Biologists. Francisco Díaz-Fleischer has been a faculty member at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico since 2008. He obtained his PhD at the Institute of Ecology (INECOL, Mexico). He is interested in the relationship between behavior and life-history of tephritid fruit flies in order to improve control method.Pablo Montoya is an expert on the use of Biological Control by Augmentation and the application of the Sterile Insect Technique against fruit fly pests, with over 60 published papers in scientific journals. He is a researcher and head of the Unit of Methods Development in the Mexican Program against Fruit Flies – SENASICA-SAGARPA.Teresa Vera is an expert on fruit fly reproductive biology and the assessment of sexual competitiveness for the implementation of the Sterile Insect Technique with over 50 published papers in scientific journals. Currently she is a researcher at the Argentinean Science Institute (CONICET) and teaches at the Facultad de Agronomía y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán where she is member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Agronómica del Noroeste Argentino.