The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly
method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide
integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a
generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing
the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and
weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated
openly and fairly from a scientific perspective. The SIT is
applicable to some major pests of plant-, animal-, and human-health
importance, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of
pests appropriate for the SIT. In the second edition, all aspects
of the SIT have been updated and the content considerably expanded.
A great variety of subjects is covered, from the history of the SIT
to improved prospects for its future application. The major
chapters discuss the principles and technical components of
applying sterile insects. The four main strategic options in using
the SIT - suppression, containment, prevention, and eradication -
with examples of each option are described in detail. Other
chapters deal with supportive technologies, economic,
environmental, and management considerations, and the
socio-economic impact of AW-IPM programmes that integrate the SIT.
In addition, this second edition includes six new chapters covering
the latest developments in the technology: managing pathogens in
insect mass-rearing, using symbionts and modern molecular
technologies in support of the SIT, applying post-factory
nutritional, hormonal, and semiochemical treatments, applying the
SIT to eradicate outbreaks of invasive pests, and using the SIT
against mosquito vectors of disease. This book will be useful
reading for students in animal-, human-, and plant-health courses.
The in-depth reviews of all aspects of the SIT and its integration
into AW-IPM programmes, complete with extensive lists of scientific
references, will be of great value to researchers, teachers,
animal-, human-, and plant-health practitioners, and policy makers.
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