March 1999, Volume 20 No. 1
Biocontrol of Sirex
Sirex noctilio, an important pest of pines, was first reported from South America in 1980, and is now a major threat to pine production in the southern cone. At the first meeting of the Permanent Working Group on Silvo-Agricultural Health in 1992, the southern cone countries identified Sirex noctilio as the pest that posed the greatest threat to conifer plantations in South America. A regional conference on the wasp, also held in 1992, recommended the creation of a management programme based on biological control. In the years since, Brazil, in collaboration with organizations in Australia, the US Forest Service and CABI Bioscience (formerly IIBC), has developed a programme, in the course of which it has introduced of a nematode and parasitic wasps from Australasia.
These proceedings* contain papers presented at an international workshop held at EMBRAPA (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria) in Colombo, Brazil on 4-9 November 1996. The workshop provided technical underpinning of the programme by creating a forum to discuss rearing and release methods for the biological control agents. To facilitate dissemination of the information further, all the papers are presented in these proceedings both in English and in Spanish or Portuguese.
*Tadeu Iede, E.; Schaitza, E,; Penteado, S.; Reardon, R.C.; Murphy, S.T. (eds) (1998) Proceedings of a conference: training in the control of Sirex noctilio by the use of natural enemies. Morgantown, WV, USA; USDA/US Forest Service, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, Publication No. FHTET 98-13, 200 pp.
For copies contact: Edson Tadeu
Iede
Email: iedeet@cnpf.embrapa.br or Erich
Schaitza Email: erich@cnpf.embrapa.br , EMBRAPA
CNP Florestas,
CP 13, 83411-000, Colombo,
PR, Brazil
Fax: +55 41 766 1276
Richard C. Reardon, Forest Health
Technology Enterprise Team,
180 Canfield Street, Morgantown,
WV 26505, USA
Email: Richard.Reardon/na_mo@fs.fed.us
Fax: +1 304 285 1505
Sean Murphy, CABI Bioscience UK Centre (Ascot), Silwood Park, Ascot, Berks. SL5 7TA, UK
Email: s.murphy@cabi.org
Fax: +44 1491 829123
