Management of Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes that Integrate the Sterile Insect Technique

Dyck, V. A.; Flores, J. Reyes; Vreysen, Marc J. B.; Fernández, E. E. Regidor; Teruya, Tadashi; Barnes, B. N.; Riera, Pere; Lindquist, D. A.; Loosjes, M.

doi:10.1007/1-4020-4051-2_20

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“…Dyck et al (2005), in their review of area-wide management programs involving the sterile insect technique, recommend that penalties for poor performance need to be negotiated before the program commences. These requirements should form part of an official agreement between stakeholders, rather than an agreement between friends.…”

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“…Maintaining public participation is a key challenge (Mumford and Tan 2000). However, it is mostly the technical and economic aspects of QFly that receives most attention in the literature (Dyck et al 2005). This paper attempts to broaden the problemsolving approach by shedding more light on the socio-institutional factors that influence the success of these undertakings.…”

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Designing local institutions for cooperative pest management to underpin market access: the case of industry-driven fruit fly area-wide management

2016

International Journal of the Commons

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Area-wide management of mobile pests offers advantages over uncoordinated farm-by-farm efforts through increased effectiveness of pest control and by reducing the need for pesticides. The literature about area-wide pest management focuses predominantly on the technical aspects of these programs, but tends to neglect the importance of social and institutional aspects. In this article the eight design principles for robust common-pool resource institutions are applied to industry-driven area-wide pest management. Three case studies are compared to gain insight about the social and institutional aspects that affect the success of these undertakings. These cases are focused on Queensland Fruit Fly control to underpin market access. Growers face a particular challenge to gain support from town residents, as backyard fruit trees can be pest breeding spots. The paper illustrates that social aspects -such as heterogeneous incentives, social capital and the ratio between town residents and main beneficiary growers -influence the ease of which the design principles can be applied. Market access opportunities impact the ratio of cost and benefits to different participants. The paper concludes that disconnecting the technical aspects of successful programs from the social and institutional aspects in which they are embedded can create unrealistic expectations in socially different regions that intend to replicate these programs.

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Designing local institutions for cooperative pest management to underpin market access: the case of industry-driven fruit fly area-wide management

2016

International Journal of the Commons

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“…2. For an extensive discussion on SIT public and grower program contributions and cost recovery, see Mumford (2005) and Dyck et al (2005).…”

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“…While research was funded by a federal grant (Turpin et al 2012(Turpin et al -2017, it is unclear if direct or indirect producer contributions would be expected for any future releases. Previous area-wide campaigns such as the SIT screwworm project in the US have been funded publically, with some support from producer groups (Dyck et al 2005). 2 Economists have argued that because the benefits of SIT programs are broad and society-wide, central funding through general taxation may be more efficient (Mumford 2005).…”

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Anticipating complexity in the deployment of gene drive insects in agriculture

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Barnes

Elsensohn

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Journal of Responsible Innovation

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“…In order to reach a sustainable field population reduction, one of the key challenges when applying SIT is the production of sufficient mosquitoes to achieve the target production level of males to be released and for colony replacement [4, 6]. For this reason, it is necessary to continually produce large numbers of eggs (millions of eggs/day) to fill several tray-rack larval rearing units [7, 8] in order to reach a daily operational level able to sustain continuous large scale operation activities.…”

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Optimization of mosquito egg production under mass rearing setting: effects of cage volume, blood meal source and adult population density for the malaria vector, Anopheles arabiensis

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Somda

Maïga

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Malar J

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Background Anopheles arabiensis is one of the major malaria vectors that put millions of people in endemic countries at risk. Mass-rearing of this mosquito is crucial for strategies that use sterile insect technique to suppress vector populations. The sterile insect technique (SIT) package for this mosquito species is being developed by the Insect Pest Control Subprogramme of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. To improve mass-rearing outcomes for An. arabiensis, the question of whether the egg production by females would be affected by the size of the adult holding cages, the source of the blood meal and the total number of pupae that could be loaded into the cages was addressed and finally the impact of adding additional pupae to the cage daily to maintain adult numbers on egg productivity assessed.MethodsMass production cages of two different volumes, two different sources of blood meal (bovine and porcine) and two different population densities (cages originally loaded with either 15,000 or 20,000 pupae) were tested and evaluated on the basis of eggs produced/cage or per female. Males and females pupae with a ratio of 1:1 were added to the cages at day 1 and 2 of pupation. The emerging adults had constant access to 5% sugar solution and blood fed via the Hemotek membrane feeding system. Eggs were collected either twice a week or daily. A generalized linear model was used to identify factors which gave significantly higher egg production.ResultsNeither cage volume nor blood meal source affected egg production per cage or per female. However, increasing population density to 20,000 pupae had a negative effect on eggs produced per cage and per female. Although high density negatively impacted egg production, adding 1000 daily additional pupae compensating for daily mortality resulted in a substantial increase in egg production. Moreover, in all tests the first and the third egg batches collected were significantly higher than others eggs batches. With the equipment and protocols described here and routinely used at the Insect Pest Control Laboratory (IPCL), it was possible to produce up to 120,000 eggs/cage/day.ConclusionThese results demonstrated that 15,000 is the optimal number of pupae to be loaded into the Anopheles Mass production cages. Under this condition, an average of 40 eggs per female was obtained for five gonotrophic cycles. However, an improvement in egg production can be achieved by daily addition, to the original 15,000 pupae, of one thousand pupae a day. Interestingly, feeding females with bovine or porcine blood using both large and small versions of the mass production cage did not affect egg productivity.

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Management of Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Programmes that Integrate the Sterile Insect Technique

Cited by 41 publications

References 10 publications

Designing local institutions for cooperative pest management to underpin market access: the case of industry-driven fruit fly area-wide management

Designing local institutions for cooperative pest management to underpin market access: the case of industry-driven fruit fly area-wide management

Anticipating complexity in the deployment of gene drive insects in agriculture

Optimization of mosquito egg production under mass rearing setting: effects of cage volume, blood meal source and adult population density for the malaria vector, Anopheles arabiensis

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