BACKGROUND With growing globalization and trade, insect incursions are increasing
worldwide. A proportion of incursions involve pests of major economic crops (eg …

Effective vector control, and more specifically mosquito control, is a complex and difficult
problem, as illustrated by the continuing prevalence (and spread) of mosquito-transmitted …

Insecticides, a heterogeneous group of chemicals, are widely used in agriculture and
household practices to avoid insect‐inflicted damage. Extensive use of insecticides has …

Invasive species increasingly threaten ecosystems, food production, and human welfare
worldwide. Hundreds of eradication programs have targeted a wide range of nonnative …

The application of (synthetic) gene drives is a powerful tool to control populations of insects
that are agricultural pests, vectors of diseases, or a threat to biodiversity potentially leading …

Caterpillars of key moth pests can cause significant losses in crop** systems worldwide,
and globalization is spreading such pests. Failure to control some species can jeopardise …

Fifty years ago, Stern et al.(1959) introduced the concept of “Integrated Control” during a
time when insect pest control was mostly based on broad-spectrum, conventional …

Pest insects harm crops, livestock and human health, either directly or by acting as vectors of
disease. The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)–mass-release of sterile insects to mate with, and …

The sterile insect technique (SIT) relies on area-wide mass-releases of sterile male pest
insects, which mate with their wild counterparts and thereby cause a drop in the wild …

Because of the profound ecological and economic impacts of many non‐native insect
species, early detection and eradication of newly founded, isolated populations is a high …