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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2010
This section of the book gives an outline of the principles behind the successful use of lacewings in crop protection. As such it provides practical information on how best to use lacewings, what happens to lacewings once they are in the field, and how success might be measured.
To these ends the section outlines the use of lacewings in biological control in an historical context, covering failures as well as successes, details ways in which to produce large numbers of lacewings in the laboratory for augmentation purposes, and how to improve the effectiveness of lacewings already in the field. Features of the nutrition of lacewing larvae and adults are covered in more detail as are ecological relations between lacewings and the environment in which they exist.
A large part of this section of book is devoted to the relevant area of the relationship between lacewings and pesticides and the highly topical area of the effects of Bacillus thuringiensis via the ingestion of transgenic corn-fed prey on lacewings is discussed.
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