Senior Research Scientist Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Biological control agents often arrive uninvited and become established in a new region. Relocating them within a country becomes an option to accelerate their establishment in areas where insect pests could benefit from increased biological control. Yet, there are a number of questions we need to answer before we help them to spread within their new adopted country. In this presentation I will provide two case studies of this topic to increase biological control of two prairie field crop pests in Canada: cabbage seedpod weevil with Trichomalus perfectus and lygus bugs with Peristenus digoneutis.
