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Title: PROACTIVE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF "PRE-INVASIVE" FRUIT PESTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE TEPHRITID FLIES

Author
item Sivinski, John

Submitted to: Entomological Society of America Regional Meetings
Publication Type: Other
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/9/2006
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Technical Abstract: Suppression of pest populations overseas can sometimes lower the likelihood of their invasion into the USA. Such a case is Mediterranean fruit fly in northern Central America. Biological control, in combination with Sterile Insect Technique, may contribute to a barrier to the pests northern expansion. New parasitoids recently discovered in Africa might be well suited for mass-rearing and release along the Mexico/Guatemala border.