The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from a scientific perspective. The SIT is applicable to some major pests of plant-, animal- and human-health importance, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for the SIT. In the second edition, all aspects of the SIT have been updated and the content considerably expanded. A great variety of subjects is covered, from the history of the SIT to improved prospects for its future application. The major chapters discuss the principles and technical components of applying sterile insects. The four main strategic options in using the SIT -- suppression, containment, prevention, and eradication -- with examples of each option are described in detail. Other chapters deal with supportive technologies, economic, environmental, and management considerations, and the socio-economic impact of AW-IPM programmes that integrate the SIT. In addition, this second edition includes six new chapters covering the latest developments in the technology: managing pathogens in insect mass-rearing, using symbionts and modern molecular technologies in support of the SIT, applying post-factory nutritional, hormonal, and semiochemical treatments, applying the SIT to eradicate outbreaks of invasive pests, and using the SIT against mosquito vectors of disease. This book will be useful reading for students in animal-, human- and plant-health courses. The in-depth reviews of all aspects of the SIT and its integration into AW-IPM programmes, complete with extensive lists of scientific references, will be of great value to researchers, teachers, animal-, human-, and plant-health practitioners, and policy makers.
Author(s): V. A. Dyck, J. Hendrichs, A. S. Robinson
Edition: 2
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 1224
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Foreword
Introductory Remarks
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1.1. History of the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 1.2. Misconceptions and Constraints Driving Opportunities
Part II. Principles of the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 2.1. Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management and the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 2.2. Biological Basis of the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 2.3. Genetic Basis of the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 2.4. Inherited Sterility in Insects
Chapter 2.5. Mathematical Models for Using Sterile Insects
Part III. Technical Components of the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 3.1. Role of Population and Behavioural Ecology in the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 3.2. Mass-Rearing for the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 3.3. Managing Pathogens in Insect Mass-Rearing for the Sterile Insect Technique, with the Tsetse Fly Salivary Gland Hypertrophy Virus as an Example
Chapter 3.4. Sterilizing Insects with Ionizing Radiation
Chapter 3.5. Sterile Insect Quality Control/Assurance
Chapter 3.6. Supply, Emergence, and Release of Sterile Insects
Chapter 3.7. Monitoring Sterile and Wild Insects in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes
Part IV. Supportive Technologies to Improve the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 4.1. Role of Population Genetics in the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 4.2. Population Suppression in Support of the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 4.3. Practical and Operational Genetic Sexing Systems Based on Classical Genetic Approaches in Fruit Flies, an Example for Other Species Amenable to Large-Scale Rearing for the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 4.4. Insect Symbiosis in Support of the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 4.5. Improving Post-Factory Performance of Sterile Male Fruit Flies in Support of the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 4.6. Applying Modern Molecular Technologies in Support of the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 4.7. Using Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Modelling in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes that Integrate the Sterile Insect Technique
Part V. Economic, Environmental, and Management Considerations
Chapter 5.1. Design and Economic Evaluation of Programmes Integrating the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 5.2. Environment and the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 5.3. Management of Area-Wide Pest Management Programmes that Integrate the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 5.4. Communication and Stakeholder Engagement in Area-Wide Pest Management Programmes that Integrate the Sterile Insect Technique
Part VI. Application of the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 6.1. Strategic Options in Using Sterile Insects for Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management
Chapter 6.2. Invasive Insect Pests: Challenges and the Role of the Sterile Insect Technique in their Prevention, Containment, and Eradication
Chapter 6.3. Procedures for Declaring Pest Free Status
Part VII. Impact of Area-Wide Pest Management Programmes that Integrate the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 7.1. Impact of Screwworm Eradication Programmes Using the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 7.2. Impact of Fruit Fly Control Programmes Using the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 7.3. Impact of Moth Suppression/Eradication Programmes Using the Sterile Insect Technique or Inherited Sterility
Chapter 7.4. Impact of Tsetse Fly Eradication Programmes Using the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 7.5. Potential Impact of Integrating the Sterile Insect Technique into the Fight against Disease-Transmitting Mosquitoes
Part VIII. Future Development of the Sterile Insect Technique
Chapter 8.1. Prospects for the Future Development and Application of the Sterile Insect Technique
Author Index
Subject Index
