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- Biological Control of Mikania micrantha - Describes a biological control project being piloted in Fiji and Papua New Guinea, using caterpillars and a rust fungus to control mile-a-minute weed, Mikania micrantha.
- Biological Pest Control - Reference and application guide for the use of the parasitic nematodes Steinernema for pest control.
- History of Biological Pest Control - Including specifics on the biological control of pests of medical and veterinary importance. The site is maintained by Dr. E. F. Legner.
- Biological Control - Text and photographs describing the biological control agents of insect, pathogen pests, and weeds.
- Biological Pest Control - Overview of this method of controlling pests and diseases in agriculture that relies on natural predation rather than introduced chemicals.
- Biological Control of Locusts - Locust and grasshopper control is currently carried out with chemical pesticides. This article describes control measures using a myco-pesticide based on the spores of a fungus pathogenic to insects.
- Biological Control of Turfgrass Snowmolds with the Fungus Typhula phacorrhiza - Dr. Tom Hsiang, at the University of Guelph, outlines his research into the use of a fungus to control another that causes serious damage to turf under lying snow.
- Midwest Biological Control News - Discusses the use of insects to control crop, garden, and home pests. Includes an index and archived back issues.
- Biological Control of Eurasian Watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) - with a focus on biological control using the native milfoil weevil (Euhrychiopsis lecontei)
- McClay Ecoscience - Research and consulting services in biological control, invasive species, and insect-plant ecology. Supplier of biological control agents for invasive plants. Based in Alberta, Canada.
Wikipedia Articles
- Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute - The Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research organization established in 1993 to address the challenges to global security and stability in the early twenty-first century, with a special, but not exclusive focus on the elimination of chemical weapons and biological weapons. It fosters this goal ...
- Biological pest control - Biological control of pests in agriculture is a method of controlling pests (including insects, mites, weeds, and plant diseases) that relies on predation, parasitism, herbivory, or other natural mechanisms. It can be an important component of integrated pest management (IPM) programs.
- Instituto Biológico - Instituto Biológico (Biological Institute in Portuguese) is an applied research center organised in 1924 in São Paulo, Brazil. It is a governmental organisation concerned with the prevention of zoonoses and foodborne animal pathogens such as rabies and tuberculosis, sanitary advertisement campaigns, alternatives to the chemical control of diseases such as organic farming and biological control.
- Inundative application - Inundative biological control refers to the release of overwhelming numbers of a mass-produced biological control agent in the expectation of achieving a rapid reduction of a pest population without necessarily achieving continuing impact.
- Engineering cybernetics - Engineering cybernetics (or Technical cybernetics) deals with the question of control engineering of mechatronic systems as well as chemical or biological systems. It is used to control and predict the behaviour of such a system; see control theory.