CIBC Annual report 1984-85.
11 fig., published by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Slough, United Kingdom.
: 58 pp.
Abstract : Information is provided on numerous projects in Commonwealth and other countries on the biological control (using arthropods and pathogens as control agents) of invertebrate pests (mainly arthropods) and weeds. The programmes on agricultural pests discussed include those for Canada (on pests of lucerne, apple and pastures) and those on cassava pests, Conopomorpha cramerella (on cocoa), sugarcane borers, coffee pests, coconut pests, mango pests, and the slug Sarasinula plebeias. Programmes on forest pests and Glossina spp. are also described. The target weeds discussed include knapweeds (Centaurea spp.), Carduus spp., Euphorbia spp., gorse (Ulex europaeus), broom (Cytisus scoparius), bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), Acacia nilotica [A. arabica], Parthenium hysterophorus, velvet leaf (Abutilon theophrasti), Hydrilla verticillata and water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes). Summaries are included of 11 projects in Europe, 5 in India, 7 in Kenya, 6 in Pakistan, 9 in the United Kingdom and 5 in the West Indies (mainly Trinidad). Numerous services and shipments of natural enemies are also summarized.