Natural Enemies of Insect Pests in Neotropical Agroecosystems : Biological Control and Functional Biodiversity

This book aims to address the importance of natural enemies and functional diversity for biological control in Neotropical agroecosystems. Several aspects related to the conservation of natural enemies, such as vegetation design and climate change, are discussed in Part 1 and the bioecology of several insects groups used in biological control in Latin America is presented in Part 2. Part 3 is devoted to mass production of natural enemies while Part 4 describes how these insects have been used to control of pests in major crops, forests, pasture, weeds and plant diseases. Lastly, Part 5 reports Latin-American experiences of integration of biological in pest management programs. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Vegetational Designs to Enhance Biological Control of Insect Pests in Agroecosystems (Miguel A. Altieri, Clara I. Nicholls)....Pages 3-13 Interactions of Natural Enemies with Non-cultivated Plants (Madelaine Venzon, Dany Silvio Souza Leite Amaral, Pedro Henrique Brum Togni, Juliana Andrea Martinez Chiguachi)....Pages 15-26 Quality of Agroecosystems as Habitats to Natural Enemies and Biological Control Agents (Yaril Matienzo Brito, Luis L. Vázquez, Janet Alfonso-Simonetti)....Pages 27-34 Plants as Food for Adult Natural Enemies (Claudio Salas)....Pages 35-47 Dispersion and Increase of Natural Enemies in Agroecosystems (Luis L. Vázquez, Gabriel C. Jacques)....Pages 49-62 Climate Change and Biological Control of Pests in Agriculture (Luis L. Vázquez)....Pages 63-69 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 Predatory Insects (Brígida Souza, Terezinha Monteiro dos Santos-Cividanes, Francisco Jorge Cividanes, Ana Luiza Viana de Sousa)....Pages 73-87 Predator Mites (Maurício Sergio Zacarias, Erika Carla da Silveira, Leopoldo Ferreira de Oliveira Bernardi)....Pages 89-96 Parasitoid Insects (Luis Cláudio Paterno Silveira, Ivana Lemos Souza, Vitor Barrile Tomazella, Heisler Alexsander Gomez Mendez)....Pages 97-109 Entomopathogenic Nematodes (Vanessa Andaló, Juan Pablo Molina Acevedo, Aldomário Santo Negrisoli Júnior, Viviane Araujo Dalbon)....Pages 111-122 Entomopathogenic Fungi (Lorena Barra-Bucarei, Andrés France Iglesias, Carlos Pino Torres)....Pages 123-136 Entomopathogenic Viruses (Fernando Hercos Valicente)....Pages 137-150 Bacillus thuringiensis (Fernando Hercos Valicente)....Pages 151-159 Interactions of Entomopathogenic Fungus with Entomophagous Insects in Agroecosystems (Luis L. Vázquez)....Pages 161-171 Front Matter ....Pages 173-173 Predatory Insects (Brígida Souza, Carlos Eduardo Souza Bezerra)....Pages 175-187 Predatory Mites for Biological Control of Phytophagous Mites (Paulo Rebelles Reis)....Pages 189-198 Parasitoids Insects (Tiago Cardoso da Costa-Lima, Aloisio Coelho Jr., Alexandre José Ferreira Diniz, Marcus Vinicius Sampaio)....Pages 199-211 Entomopathogenic Nematodes (Luís Garrigós Leite, José Eduardo Marcondes de Almeida, Julie Giovanna Chacon-Orozco, Clara Yalexy Delgado)....Pages 213-221 Entomopathogenic Fungi (José Eduardo Marcondes Almeida, Luís Garrigós Leite, Antonio Batista Filho)....Pages 223-233 Entomophogenic Viruses (Fernando Hercos Valicente)....Pages 235-244 Bacillus thuringiensis (María Elena Márquez Gutiérrez, Deise Maria Fontana Capalbo, Regina de Oliveira Arruda, Rodrigo de Oliveira Moraes)....Pages 245-259 Front Matter ....Pages 261-261 Beans (Eliane Dias Quintela, Tiago Cardoso da Costa-Lima, Alexandre José Ferreira Diniz)....Pages 263-275 Coffee (César Freire Carvalho, Stephan Malfitano Carvalho, Brígida Souza)....Pages 277-291 Cotton (Cecilia Czepak, Karina Cordeiro Albernaz Godinho, Pablo da Costa Gontijo, Janayne Maria Rezende)....Pages 293-303 Forests (Leonardo Rodrigues Barbosa, Juliana Mendonça Campos, Carlos Frederico Wilcken, José Cola Zanuncio)....Pages 305-317 Fruit Crops (Lenira V. C. Santa-Cecília, Brígida Souza, Kethullyn H. Silva, Ernesto Prado)....Pages 319-328 Maize (Rosangela C. Marucci, Simone Martins Mendes, Ivana Lemos Souza)....Pages 329-339 Oleraceous (Alessandra de Carvalho Silva, Carolina Rodrigues de Araújo, Luis L. Vázquez)....Pages 341-354 Ornamental Plants (Lívia Mendes Carvalho, Brígida Souza, Ana Luiza Viana de Sousa)....Pages 355-368 Pasture (Alexander Machado Auad, Sandra Elisa Barbosa da Silva)....Pages 369-382 Rice (Bruno Zachrisson)....Pages 383-395 Soybean (Alexandre de Sene Pinto, Regiane Cristina Oliveira de Freitas Bueno)....Pages 397-412 Sugarcane (Alexandre de Sene Pinto, Sóstenes Eduardo Leal Trujillo)....Pages 413-425 Microbial Control of Sugarcane Pests (José Eduardo Marcondes de Almeida)....Pages 427-436 Weeds (Kátia de Lima Nechet, Marcelo Diniz Vitorino, Bruno Sérgio Vieira, Bernardo de Almeida Halfeld-Vieira)....Pages 437-449 Plant Diseases (Flávio Henrique Vasconcelos de Medeiros, Júlio Carlos Pereira da Silva)....Pages 451-466 Front Matter ....Pages 467-467 Physiological and Ecological Selectivity of Pesticides for Natural Enemies of Insects (Geraldo Andrade Carvalho, Anderson Dionei Grützmacher, Luis Clepf Passos, Rodrigo Lopes de Oliveira)....Pages 469-478 Use of Natural Chemical Products for Pest Control (Dejane Santos Alves, Jociani Ascari)....Pages 479-488 Effects of Genetically Modified Plants with Bt Toxins on Natural Enemies (Camila S. F. Souza, Rosangela C. Marucci, Daniela Resende Chaves, Simone Martins Mendes)....Pages 489-496 Use of Silicon as Resistance Factor for Plants Against Insect Pests (Jair Campos Moraes, Franscinely Aparecida Assis, Gleice Aparecida Assis)....Pages 497-508 Use of Semiochemical-Based Strategies to Enhance Biological Control (Maria Fernanda Gomes Villalba Peñaflor)....Pages 509-522 Aphid-Tending Ants and Their Effects on Natural Enemies Used in the Biological Control (Ernesto Oliveira Canedo-Júnior, Ângelo Barbosa Monteiro, Antônio César Medeiros de Queiroz, Graziele Santiago Silva)....Pages 523-533 Back Matter ....Pages 535-546