Sterile Insect Technique

From the reviews: "Integrated pest management (IPM) requires the use of all available tools to manage pests. Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) exhaustively reviews the principles and practices of SIT in area-wide IPM. ... this book thoroughly reviews the history, application, successes and failures of SIT, and its value as a component of area-wide IPM. ... the application of newer technologies to area-wide IPM makes this an outstanding international contribution to IPM. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers." (R. Frederiksen, CHOICE, Vol. 43 (10), June, 2006)

• History of the Sterile Insect Technique.- Principles of the Sterile Insect Technique.- Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management and the Sterile Insect Technique.- Biological Basis of the Sterile Insect Technique.- Genetic Basis of the Sterile Insect Technique.- Inherited Sterility in Insects.- Mathematical Models for the Use of Sterile Insects.- Technical Components of the Sterile Insect Technique.- Role of Population and Behavioural Ecology in the Sterile Insect Technique.- Mass-Rearing for Sterile Insect Release.- Sterilizing Insects with Ionizing Radiation.- Sterile Insect Quality.- Sterile Insect Supply, Emergence, and Release.- Monitoring Sterile and Wild Insects in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes.- Procedures for Declaring Pest Free Status.- Supportive Technologies to Improve the Sterile Insect Technique.- Role of Population Genetics in the Sterile Insect Technique.- Population Suppression in Support of the Sterile Insect Technique.- Genetic Sexing Strains in Mediterranean Fruit Fly, an Example for Other Species Amenable to Large-Scale Rearing for the Sterile Insect Technique.- Use of Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes that Integrate the Sterile Insect Technique.- Economic, Environmental, and Management Considerations.- Application of Benefit/Cost Analysis to Insect Pest Control Using the Sterile Insect Technique.- Environment and the Sterile Insect Technique.- Management of Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes that Integrate the Sterile Insect Technique.- Public Relations and Political Support in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes that Integrate the Sterile Insect Technique.- Application of the Sterile Insect Technique.- Strategic Options in Using Sterile Insects for Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management.- Misconceptions and Constraints.- Impact of Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes That Integrate the Sterile Insect Technique.- Impact of Screwworm Eradication Programmes Using the Sterile Insect Technique.- Impact of Fruit Fly Control Programmes Using the Sterile Insect Technique.- Impact of Moth Suppression/Eradication Programmes Using the Sterile Insect Technique or Inherited Sterility.- Potential Impact of Tsetse Fly Control Involving the Sterile Insect Technique.- Future Development of the Sterile Insect Technique.- Prospects for the Future Development and Application of the Sterile Insect Technique.