Biological control of insect pests in British Columbia agriculture

该NSERC计划提供的设备将加强和加速不列颠哥伦比亚省（BC）农业部门使用生物防治产品管理害虫的研究。 不列颠哥伦比亚的几家公司生产节肢动物捕食者和拟寄生虫作为害虫生物防治产品。 这些产品为不列颠哥伦比亚省的农业生产者提供了一种可持续的基于生态的害虫管理方法。在本项目中，我们将对生物防治的新产品和新工艺以及威胁生物防治产品功效的生物进行研究。 此外，我们将开发用于识别和监测农业害虫的工具，特别是在新作物环境中使用生物防治产品时。我们与生物防治和农业生产者的合作应产生产品和工艺，从而提高生物防治产品的销售和市场，同时沿着减少害虫管理活动对环境的影响。

Equipment provided by this NSERC program will enhance and accelerate research on the use of biological control products for management of insect pests in the British Columbia (BC) agricultural sector. Several companies in BC produce arthropod predators and parasitoids as products for biological control of pests. These products provide a sustainable ecologically-based method of pest management for BC's agricultural producers. In this project, we will conduct research on new products and processes for biological control and on organisms that threaten the efficacy of biological control products. In addition, we will develop tools for the identification and monitoring of agricultural pests particularly when biological control products are being used in new crop environments. Our collaboration with biological control and agricultural producers should yield products and processes that enhance sales and markets for biological control products along with reducing the environmental impacts of pest management activities.