According to van Lenteren et al. 2018 (Biological control using invertebrates and microorganisms ... ) augmentative biological control (ABC) is currently applied on about 30 million ha.
what are the ways forward to make ABC work on a larger area worldwide?
which obstacles need to be overcome?
what are the research topics within biological control that need to be addressed (e.g. modeling ecological interactions, insect behaviour, more efficient mass production technologies , etc.)?
... particularly with respect to outdoor applications and arthropods
Augmentive biological control refers to application of various types of natural predator or parasite of any pest. If you are planning to ABC than it should applicable on crops mostly and higly infested by pest like aphids, in this case you need following knowledge.
1.Infestation prevalance and intensity of pest.
2. Total no of predators or parasite of the pest
3. Biotic and abiotic composition of the environment where infestation posses
4. Biotic interaction between various Biological controling arthropods.
5.Intraguild predation of various predatory arthropods on particular pest
6. Functional response of various biological controlling arthropods.
6. Interspecific and intraspecific Cannibalism.
8. Invasiveness of arthropod biological controling agents.
thank you for the general points to consider , still 30 million ha worldwide of ABC is not a large amount ...
what are the problems and how to overcome them? why do certain programms fail? how to make them a success? how to develop concepts that work?
General problems are
Cannibalism
Interspecific copetion
Invasiveness of predator
Low functional response
Life cycle of predator tooks longer time in developmental stage as comparision with pest
Pest have high oviposition and fecundity than predators
Birds, Reptiles and amphibians prey on ABC predators
Adaptation and acclimitization of ABP predator is very weaker than pest ...etc etc
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