In this chapter, the negative impacts of rodents on the health and performance of livestock were presented focusing on the following topics: rodents and the reasons for their success; monitoring: how to identify a rodent problem; how to control rodents; preventing the entrance of the rodents;...

This chapter deals with vertebrate pests, including rats and mice (which transmit parasites and diseases to other animals and humans, and can be found in gardens and forests), bats (find shelter in structures) and birds (which create problems when they come into conflict with human). Information is ...

Biological control in Argentina has a longstanding tradition with records of natural enemy introductions since the beginning of the 20th century, mainly between 1900 and 1940. Eight predators, 70 parasitoids and seven pathogens have been introduced for arthropod control, plus eight weed biocontrol...

This chapter discusses the problems to expect after birds are trapped in the chimney; and tricks to capture warehouse birds.

This chapter describes several non-chemical and non-lethal chemical methods for rodent control, highlighting the effectiveness of these methods to achieve the following objectives: prevent and reduce immigation of rodents; forcing rodents to emigrate; reduction of pest birth rate; and increase pest ...

The cabbage seedpod weevil (CSW), Ceutorhynchus obstrictus, is a European pest of several brassicaceous seed crops from the Mediterranean region to Scandinavia. In North America it was first reported from the Vancouver area in British Columbia in 1931. Since then it has been reported in several...

Pollen bettle, B. viridescens, is well established in eastern North America and there is real potential for it to spread to the major rape-growing regions of western Canada. This chapter describes the morphology, life cycle, ecology (host plant and damage), distribution, monitoring and management,...

This chapter reviews novel technologies for controlling urban mosquito pests and their associated diseases, including impregnated fabrics, polystyrene beads, ovitraps and adult traps, insecticidal paints, sugar baits, entomopathogenic fungi, laser, auto-dissemination systems, nematodes, copepods,...

Regulatory agencies responsible for managing pest incursions rely upon an adequate knowledge of the distribution of the pest. Spatio-temporal estimates of distribution for an actively invading pest require ecological and surveillance information to be assimilated, a task which is well suited to...

This chapter covers the taxonomy, morphology, life cycle, behaviour, bionomics, medical and veterinary importance, prevention and control of blow flies and screw-worm flies (Calliphoridae). Focus is given on species that cause myiasis in animals and man. Their use in maggot debridement therapy is...