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Improving integrated pest management in horticulture,
Rosemary Collier, 15.03.2022.

Improving integrated pest management in horticulture provides a comprehensive review of the recent developments in integrated pest management for horticultural crops. The collection builds on the wealth of research on insect and disease control in horticulture using IPM strategies in areas such as biological control and decision support systems to target techniques more effectively. The book also includes valuable case studies based on practical experience of IPM. Buy here: https://shop.bdspublishing.com/store/bds/detail/workgroup/3-190-106510

Microbial bioprotectants for plant disease management,
Editors: Dr Jürgen Köhl, Dr Willem J. Ravensberg, 23.11.2021

This collection provides a comprehensive coverage of the recent advances in the development of more ecologically balanced biological methods to control plant diseases. Chapters review the availability and use of bacterial, fungal and viral bioprotectants, as well as the issues that arise with their development and use. Buy here: https://shop.bdspublishing.com/store/bds/detail/workgroup/3-190-106382

Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management 
Development and Field Application
Edited by: Jorge Hendrichs, Rui Pereira, Marc J.B. Vreysen
1st Edition, first published 2020, eBook published 1 January 2021

Several IOBC members participated in writing chapters of this book.

Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. The extensive reliance on insecticide use reduces biodiversity, contributes to pollinator decline, destroys habitat, and threatens endangered species. This book offers a more effective application of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach, on an area-wide (AW) or population-wide (AW-IPM) basis, which aims at the management of the total population of a pest, involving a coordinated effort over often larger areas. For major livestock pests, vectors of human diseases and pests of high-value crops with low pest tolerance, there are compelling economic reasons for participating in AW-IPM.

Open Access, eBook or Download:
DOI, https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003169239

Insect Pest Management
3rd Edition, November 2020
By: David Dent, Dent Associates Ltd, UK, Richard Binks, FreshTec, UK

An undergraduate and postgraduate textbook covering the key principles, methodologies, approaches and practical examples of insect pest management in agricultural, post harvest systems, horticulture, insect vectors and medical and veterinary entomology. The book covers the underpinning monitoring and forecasting of pest outbreaks, yield loss and impact assessments and all of the latest methods of control and management of insects from insecticides, host manipulation, plant resistance, biological control, use of interference, agronomic and precision control methods as well as socio-economic and research management aspects of developing integrated approaches to pest management. The new edition also reflects the key advances made in the disciplines of molecular biology, biochemistry and genomics related to insects and their management, as well as the importance and role of biodiversity, climate change, precision agriculture, data management and sustainability of production and supply in delivering integrated management solutions.

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Integrative Biological Control - Ecostacking for Enhanced Ecosystem Services,
Edited by: Yulin Gao, Heikki M. T. Hokkanen and Ingeborg Menzler-Hokkanen, April 2020, 248 pages, ISBN 978-3-030-44837-0

This book is the first to integrate biological control into a conceptual framework – ecostacking - uniting all aspects of biological control and ecosystem services. In 2018 the "First International Congress of Biological Control" was organised and held in Beijing, China. The chapters highlight some of the achievements presented at the congress, worldwide. Of particular significance are the numerous contributions by Chinese researchers illustrating the remarkable progress made on developing and adopting multiple biological control strategies over vast agricultural areas, largely replacing chemical pesticides for sustainable agricultural and horticultural production. In many parts of the world including Europe, fragmented research based on short-term funding has been unable to answer to the needs to develop sustainable long-term solutions to crop protection, while colleagues in China have been successful in implementing programs that exemplify the power of the ecostacking approach.

Chapter 2 of this book is available open.

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Integrated Pest and Disease Management in Greenhouse Crops, 2nd edition, 2019
This book represents a new, completely updated, version of a book edited by two of the current editors, published with Springer in 1999. It covers pest and disease management of greenhouse crops, providing readers the basic strategies and tactics of integrated control together with its implementation in practice, with case studies with selected crops. The diversity of editors and authors provides readers a complete picture of the world situation of IPM in greenhouse crops. Editors: Maria Lodovica Gullino, Ramon Albajes, Philippe C. Nicot. Have a glimpse: Free Preview
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22304-5
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-22303-8, Online ISBN: 978-3-030-22304-5

Biological Control in Latin America and the Caribbean
Edited by Joop C. van Lenteren, Vanda H.P. Bueno, M. Gabriela Luna and Yelitza C. Colmenarez, December 2019.
Written mainly by IOBC NTRS authors. Get more information and description.

The book can be ordered in the CABI bookshop: https://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9781789242430

Biological Control – Ecology and Applications

By Heimpel G.E. & N.J. Mills 2017
Cambridge University Press, New York, 380 pp.
Hard cover $US 59.99

Reviewed by Eric Wajnberg, Editor-in-Chief, BioControl

Special issue of BioControl (2012):
Roy, H.; De Clercq, P.; Lawson Handley, L.-J.; Sloggett, J.J.; Poland, R.L.; Wajnberg, E. (Eds.)

Invasive Alien Arthropod Predators and Parasitoids:
An Ecological Approach

http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/
book/978-94-007-2708-3

Special issue of BioControl (2008):
Roy, Helen E.; Wajnberg, Eric (Eds.)

From Biological Control to Invasion:
the Ladybird Harmonia axyridis as a Model Species
Dordrecht, Springer.

http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/entomology/
book/978-1-4020-6938-3

The IOBC-WPRS Bulletins are a well established series of relatively fast issued working papers in a systematic format.

Bulletins are proceedings of Working and Study Group meetings and Commission activities.

The number of volumes varies each year (7-15 volumes).

This publication is an important support to the Working Groups of WPRS.

IOBC-WPRS news are published in a Newsletter sent by e-mail.

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Integrated Pest Management - Design and application of feasible and effective strategies.
Edited by F.G Wijnands, R. Baur, C. Malavolta, & B. Gerowitt (2012).
Published in conjunction with the Conference:
Integrated Pest Management: The way forward to sustainable agricultural production. Conference on reducing pesticide dependency, commemorating the 50 th anniversary of Rachel Carson's "Silent spring", 19 June 2012, Brussels, Price: € 25,00.

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free of charge for IOBC-WPRS Members

Integrated production – Objectives, Principles and Technical Guidelines
Baur, R., Wijnands, F. and Malavolta, C. (eds.),
IOBC Commission on "IP Guidelines and Endorsement",
IOBC-WPRS Bulletin, Special Issue, 2011
Copyright: IOBC-WPRS 2011
ISBN 978-92-9067-244-9, Price: € 25,00.

Announcement (pdf).

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free of charge for IOBC-WPRS Members

Classical and augmentative biological control against diseases and pests: critical status analysis and review of factors influencing their success.
Nicot, P. C. (Ed), 1st Edition August 2011,
Copyright: IOBC-WPRS 2011
ISBN 978-92-9067-243-2

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Ecological Infrastructures: Ideabook on Functional Biodiversity at the Farm Level, Temperate Zones of Europe.
Boller, E.F., Häni, F. & Poehling, H.-M. (eds.), 2004. 220 pp.
English-German, 1st Edition, LBL, Lindau,
ISBN 3-906776-07-7

This tool produced by IOBC-WPRS for farmers, farm advisers and students has found wide interest. In its first bilingual English-German version, it compiles many facts scattered in the literature or unpublished.

Free Download: IOBC Ideabook on Ecological Infrastructures (pdf)

A Manual for Research on Verticillium chlamydosporium, a Potential Biological Control Agent for Root-Knot Nematodes.
Kerry B.R. & Bourne J.M. (eds.). 2002. XIII + 84 pp., 14 fig., 4 fig. in colour, Gent, IOBC-WPRS, ISBN 92-9067-138-2, Price: € 15,00.

Announcement with preface and table of contents: Announcement (pdf).

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Guidelines to evaluate side-effects of plant protection products to non-target arthropods.
Candolfi M.P., Blümel S., Forster R. et al. (eds.), 2000. IX + 158 pp., Gent, IOBC-WPRS, ISBN: 92-9067-129-7, Price: € 25,00.
As result from the Joint Initiative of IOBC, BART and EPPO updated, standardized and validated test methods to assess side-effects of plant protection products to non-target arthropods for registration purposes have been published

Announcement with preface and table of contents: Announcement (pdf).

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free of charge for IOBC-WPRS Members

Monitoring Populations of the Carrot Fly Psila rosae.
Finch S., Freuler J. & Collier R.H. (eds.), 1999. VIII + 108 pp., 27 Figures, 28 Tables. Dijon, IOBC-WPRS, ISBN 92-9067-110-6, Price: € 10,00.
This book contains 9 sections discussing the monitoring activities and strategies for monitoring of the carrot fly, P. rosae. Specific topics include fly behaviour and biology, trap characteristics, trap selectivity, trap location, and repellents and attractants.
You may order the brochure by letter, fax or e-mail from: Dr. Annette Herz.

Current Issues:
IOBC- Global Newsletter 111 (pdf), August 2022

Archives: https://www.iobc-global.org/publications.html

The Use and Regulation of Microbial Pesticides in Representative Jurisdictions Worldwide.
Kabaluk, J. Todd, Antonet M. Svircev, Mark. S. Goettel, and Stephanie G. Woo (eds.). 2010. IOBC Global. 99pp.

Download PDF from the IOBC-Global website:
http://www.iobc-global.org/downlaod/
Microbial_Regulation_Book_Kabaluk_et_ al_2010.pdf

IOBC Internet Book of Biological Control – Version 6, February 2012
Editor: J.C. van Lenteren

Download: IOBC Internet Book of Biological Control (PDF)

(Download PDF from the IOBC-Global website:
http://www.iobc-global.org/
publications_iobc_internet_book_of_biological_control.html)

Quality Control and Production of Biological Control Agents: Theory and Testing Procedures.
J.C. van Lenteren (ed.), 2004. 327 pp.

This book was written by many IOBC members and is the result of work done in global and wprs working groups on quality control of natural enemies. The use of biological control agents has been increasing worldwide and there are now many companies massproducing such organisms, particularly for the control of insect pests. However, there is a great need for quality control in the production and use of these natural enemies, which include insect parasitoids and predators, fungi and viruses. This book has been written by leading scientists to provide both background theory and practical guidance on this subject.
ISBN 0 85199 688 4, US $ 120.00, www.cabi-publishing.org/bookshop.
Some copies still available for reduced price at Joop.vanLenteren@wur.nl.
For further information see announcement with preface and table of contents: Announcement (pdf).

International Organization for Biological Control of Noxious Animals and Plants: History of the First 50 Years (1956-2006).
Boller, E.F., J.C. van Lenteren and V. Delucchi (eds.), 2006, IOBC, Zürich
ISBN: 92-9067-194-5 [ 287 pp.]

The International Organisation for Biological Control (IOBC) celebrates its 50th anniversary. What started in 1956 with the first meeting of European pioneers in biological control evolved into an independent organisation with world-wide activities (www.iobc-global.org). IOBC’s expertise covers now all aspects of sustainable crop protection in major annual and perennial crops. To commemorate this milestone, a book on the colourful history of this organisation has been published.
Download: IOBC: History of the First 50 Years (1956-2006) (pdf)