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Introducing Parasites and Predators to Control Native Pests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

David Pimentel
David Pimentel
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Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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Abstract

Considerable evidence substantiates the idea that native pests can be controlled by parasites and predators of allied species and genera. In a survey of 66 pest species, which were successfully controlled by biological means and for which the habitats of all species could be verified, it was found that 39% were controlled by an introduced parasite or predator of an allied species or genus. Although relatively few attempts have been made to control native and imported pests with parasites and predators of species allied to the pest species, the proportion of successes is surprisingly high. Employing these species has certain advantages, especially in the control of imported pests, because no ecological homeostasis has evolved and the association between the parasite and host (predator and prey included) is new.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 95 , Issue 8 , August 1963 , pp. 785 - 792
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1963

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