Proceedings of the workshop on biological control of pests in Canada, October 11-12, 1990, Calgary, Alberta PDF
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, ^ aecv9i-pi ' '., i " ’ , ’ lit! ^ ^ ‘ 1 ® ‘ ImJ <"!'!' ' ■ ' . ...n' ',', i'! , ' ' / I ',' "‘t:f I ; ',, 'if' Proceedings of the Workshop on Biological Control of Pests in Canada iPR"2'3;|$i October 11 - 12, 1990 Calgary, Alberta M N ational Library Bibliotheque nationale of Canada du Canada Proceedings of the Workshop on Biological Control of Pests in Canada October 11-12, 1990 Calgary, Alberta Organized by the Alberta Environmental Centre in collaboration with Alberta Agriculture Edited by A.S. McClay Alberta Environmental Centre Vegreville, Alberta 1991 This publication may be cited as: McClay, A.S. (ed.). 1991. Proceedings of the Workshop on Biological Control of Pests in Canada, October 11-12, 1990, Calgary, Alberta. Alberta Environmental Centre, Vegreville, Alberta, Canada. AECV91-P1. 136 pp. ISBN 0-7732-0540-3 Single copies of this publication may be obtained from: Communications, Alberta Environmental Centre, Vegreville, Alberta, Canada TOB 4L0. 11 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE V SESSION 1: STATE OF THE ART 1 Biological Control in Greenhouses . . . L.A. Gilkeson 3 Biological Control of Insect Pests of Field Crops . . . W J . Turnock 9 Control of Forest Pests with Insect Parasitoids ... V. Nealis and D. Wallace 15 Microbial Control of Forest Insect Pests . . . J. Cunningham and K. van Frankenhuyzen 23 Biological Control of Plant Diseases . . . M.S. Reddy 33 Weed Control with Mycoherbicides . . . R.S. Winder 43 Classical Biological Control of Weeds . . . P. Harris 51 Biological Control of Aquatic Vegetation . . . J.T. O’Donovan 59 Biological Control of Livestock Pests . . . T.J. Lysyk 69 Biological Control of Urban and Domestic Pests ... J.A. Shemanchuk 81 SESSION 2: POSTER ABSTRACTS 93 SESSION 3: CURRENT ISSUES 103 Biological Control: the Old and the New . . . J.K. Waage 105 Registration and Regulation in Biological Control . . . J. Byrne 113 Building Biological Control Institutions for the Twenty-first Century ... R.G. Van Driesche 119 SESSION 4: THE WAY AHEAD 125 Research Needs 127 Coordination and Funding 128 Regulation 129 Implementation 130 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 131 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: A.S. McClay, Alberta Environmental Centre (Chairman) M.P. Sharma, Alberta Environmental Centre W. Yarish, Alberta Agriculture D. Cole, Alberta Agriculture IV PREFACE The Workshop on Biological Control of Pests in Canada was held at the Carriage House Inn, Calgary, on October 11-12, 1990. In our initial plans, we envisaged an attendance of about 50 people. In fact, the workshop was attended by over 180 participants from across Canada as well as a f ew from the United States and United Kingdom. Participants came from a wide range of institutions and backgrounds, including researchers from federal and provincial government institutions and universities, extension and regulatory staff from all levels of government, industry personnel, private consultants and producers. This enthusiastic response clearly indicates the timeliness of the Workshop: there is a w idespread interest in biological control in Canada, and a wish to know more about its potential. The workshop was designed to increase awareness and understanding of the potential for biological pest control in Canada, to provide an opportunity for communication among researchers, producers, administrators and others involved in biological control, and to provide a f orum for discussion of issues affecting progress in biological control. It consisted of four sessions. In the first, entitled "State of the Art", eleven speakers were asked to summarize the current state of various fields of biological pest control in Canada, and to point out opportunities and problems for further progress. The second session consisted of reports on individual programs or issues, in the form of poster presentations. Twenty-two posters were displayed, covering a w ide range of topics from regulatory issues to the cold-hardiness of insect parasitoids. Abstracts of the posters are included in these Proceedings. The third session was entitled "Current Issues". The three speakers in this session addressed the regulatory position of biological control in Canada, recommendations for implementing biological control programs, and global trends in biological control. In the fourth and final session, entitled "The Way Ahead", participants broke up into four discussion groups. These groups were asked to consider respectively: research needs; coordination and funding; regulation; and implementation of biological control programs. The moderators of these groups then reported their conclusions to the reassembled workshop participants. Summaries of these reports are included in these Proceedings. As will be clear, the two days of the Workshop were crowded ones. Even with a f ull program, some areas could not be covered; for example, we had no papers on biological control in forage crops, fruits or vegetables. The feedback received from participants showed that most found the workshop to be interesting and useful. A glance around the meeting room during the talks usually revealed intense note-taking, suggesting that the V speakers were presenting information which was both new and interesting for many of those present. Many commented that they particularly benefited from the opportunities for informal meetings and iscussion with other biocontrol workers. Possibly the most significant development at the Workshop came during the final session. The discussion group on "Coordination and funding" concluded that there was a need for a permanent forum to promote biological control in Canada, which would provide leadership, set priorities, and promote communication among those interested in biological control. This proposal was unanimously endorsed by the workshop participants. A t hree-person steering committee, consisting of Roberte Makowski (Agriculture Canada, Regina), Bill Tumock (Agriculture Canada, Winnipeg) and myself was elected to develop plans for such an organization, tentatively named the Canadian Forum for Biological Control. These proposals will appear in the next issue of the Agriculture Canada publication Biocontrol News, a c opy of which will be sent to all those who were registered at the Workshop. The plans will be revised on the basis of comments received on these proposals, and it is hoped that an inaugural meeting of the Forum will be held in 1992. I would like to thank all those who assisted with the Workshop, in particular: the members of the Organizing Committee; Alberta’s Minister of the Environment, Hon. Ralph Klein, for his warm welcome to the participants and his encouraging opening remarks; Dr. Fayyaz Qureshi, Director of the Plant Sciences Division at the Alberta Environmental Centre for his interest and support; all the speakers; the moderators of the sessions and discussion groups; Centre technicians Rob Hughes, Neil McLean, Sharon Kendall and Nancy Cowle for much hard work in the preparation, set-up and running of the workshop; and the staff of the Carriage House Inn for dealing efficiently with a r ather larger group than we expected. These Proceedings have been produced from manuscripts submitted on diskettes by the speakers. One paper is not included as it had not been received by our publication deadline. They have been edited for consistency of style, spelling and format, but are otherwise essentially as submitted. Statements or opinions presented in them reflect the views of their authors, and not necessarily those of Alberta Environment or Alberta Agriculture. A.S. McClay January 1991 VI Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofwor00work_3 ':M! ‘■-mWI ■':" .. ; 1 V; /'■;;■ r :/% . ' lOI^ . . > ' \!.\ .1'’ , ( A. -V-^- ■'■-^■■^' v. i ;#, ■■ . ■ -r.t %: ■ H ■-’•V-' ■■■ >^.-:^ '■'■ ' ' h .} y'Vi .r ^ ■- ,r. ‘^%'^r f^ wmiM ? '>• ^ |fp»i*:v- v- ' ;.. -w (W ^ nUA^iip, ~ • f.f tMl •j^ >' - ^ ^ . ’-'^4lPte‘ll •'•; . ? •- • ^ . ' . .4‘‘ ■ ^'‘ )i) l.(^ss:'\ .- :^ r m ?Vk.jiin|^4 ^4’^' p,. ^-4 in :i#|v-r', r' ■ # -J#f «:..- ^,• vsil - i4 , ► i^’ .1; . >4,'' . ' - ■ V ;f
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