September 1997, Volume 18 No. 3

Announcements

Are you producing a newsletter or report, holding a meeting, running an organization or rearing a natural enemy that you want other biocontrol workers to know about? Send us the details and we will announce it in BNI.

Israel Meeting

The XIVth International Plant Protection Congress is scheduled to take place on 25-30 July 1999 in Jerusalem, Israel. The theme of the Congress is `Plant Protection Towards the Third Millennium - Where Chemistry Meets Ecology'. Sixteen topics on major aspects of Plant Protection will be covered.

For further information, please contact the Congress Secretariat: P.O. Box 50006, Tel Aviv 61500, Israel

Tel: +972 3 514 0000

Fax: +972 3 514 0077 or 517 5674

E-mail: ippc@kenes.com

Or visit our Homepage: http://www.kenes.co.il.IPPC

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Biological Control for US Forest Pests

This report* describes the potential for the use of biological control against 94 pests of managed forests and urban landscape trees in northeastern and north-central regions of the USA. Methods considered include the introduction of new species of natural enemy (classical biological control), conservation of existing natural enemies through modification of stand conditions or silvicultural practices, augmentative releases of artificially reared natural enemies and the application of pathogens as microbial pesticides.

The literature on the population dynamics and natural enemies of each pest species is reviewed, including the effects of each biological control agent where known. Instances where investment of public funds for biological control should be pursued are identified, as are instances where biological control would not be likely to succeed. Detailed information on how biological control might be used to control specific pests is given.

*Van Driesche, R. G.; Healy, S.; Reardon, R.C. (1996) Biological control of arthropod pests of the northeastern and north central forests in the United States. A review and recommendations. Morgantown, West Virginia; Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team/USDA Forest Service, 257 pp.

Available free from: Lisa Cress, Forest Service, 180 Canfield St., Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, USA

Fax: +304 284 1505

E-mail: lcress@mserv.fsl.wvnet.edu

Hawaii Biological Survey Records for 1996

The third annual compilation of Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey have been published as Bishop Museum Occasional Papers Nos. 48 & 49 (February 1997). Highlights include an update of numbers of species in Hawaii, an overview of the history and current distribution of the invasive weed Miconia calvescens, new records of plants, insects and other invertebrates, and a catalogue of non-indigenous land and freshwater snails and slugs.

Many of the products of the Hawaii Biological Survey, including many of the databases supporting papers published here, taxonomic authority files, bibliographic and specimen databases, type specimens and collec-tion data are available on the Internet. The Hawaii Biological Survey Home Page is at:

http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/HBS/

and the gopher databases are at:

gopher.bishop.hawaii.org:70/11/BMData

The Records are available from: Bishop Museum Press, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI 96817, USA