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This book addresses the behavioural adaptations of parasites across a broad range of taxa, including parasitoid wasps, entomopathogenic nematodes, seed-feeding insects and plant-parasitic nematodes. The chapters emphasize the fundamental principles of parasitism and address the diversity and...
This chapter reviews the host-seeking strategies of entomopathogenic nematodes at the infective juvenile stage. Topics include conceptual models of foraging strategies; associations between nematodes and insect hosts; biology, foraging behaviour, host habitat selection, host-seeking response to...
This chapter highlights a range of disparate studies to examine how plants, root herbivores and their natural enemies interact in the complex soil environment. Heterogeneity influences the foraging behaviour of plant roots, as well as the foraging behaviour of root-feeding insects and a key group...
This paper provides a review of field and greenhouse studies on the efficacy of entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) against plant parasitic nematodes. The background and history of the interaction between EPNs and plant parasitic nematodes, and nematode life histories are briefly discussed. Proposed...
This chapter discusses some aspects (bacterial taxonomy and co-speciation with nematodes, phenotypic variation, pathogenicity, and isolation of symbionts and maintenance of monoxeny) of the symbiosis between entomophilic nematodes (mainly Heterorhabditis and Steinernema spp.) and entomopathogenic...
This paper discusses the behaviour (infective juvenile dispersal and location in the soil, foraging strategies, host discrimination and infection dynamics) of entomopathogenic nematodes which directly or indirectly affects the success of biological control.
This chapter deals with some methods and procedures developed and tested with specific entomopathogenic nematode strains as potential biological control agents. It is likely that for other species of nematodes, experimental conditions such as concentration, incubation period and incubation...