A Review of 1994 Pricing and Marketing by Suppliers of Organisms for Biological Control of Arthropods in the United States

Screening of Beauveria bassiana (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) isolates against nymphs of Bemisia tabaci (Genn.) biotype B (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) with description of a new bioassay method

“…Predators, parasitoids and fungi have been commercially used in many countries for biological control of aleyrodids, emphasis being on Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood), the greenhouse whitefly (Cranshaw et al 1996, Heinz 1996, Lenteren et al 1997. In non-protected crops the potential of parasitoids and, above all, entomopathogenic fungi such as Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin and Paecilomyces fumosoroseus (Wize) Brown & Smith has been assessed for biotype B of B. tabaci control (Wraight et al 1996, Akey & Henneberry 1998, Wraight et al 1998.…”

Quality Control of Mass Reared Egg Parasitoids

“…These natural enemies are reared by some 50 companies, of which 26 are presently located in Europe. For an indication of prices of natural enemies in Europe and the United States, see van Lenteren et al (1997) and Cranshaw et al (1996), respectively.…”

Comparative Study of Different Diets Efficiency on Some Biological Parameters of <I>Chrysoperla carnea</I> (Stephens) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

“…Several predatory preys can be produced simply on relatively cheap foods. Recently, the egg stage of a few species has been used as factitious prey by some commercial insectaries to produce generalist predators including coleopterans (e.g., lady beetles), and neuropterans (e.g., lacewings) (Cranshaw et al, 1996;van Lenteren, 2003). Artificial diets must ensure two fundamental factors: the nutritional requirements of predators and the reproductive ability with high quality (Cohen, 2004).…”