Biological Control as a Component of Sustainable Agriculture

This website will give you information about research conducted by Dr. W. Joe Lewis of the USDA Agricultural Research Service and collaborating visiting scientists in his laboratory in Tifton, GA. Research is aimed at understanding the interaction of natural enemies, herbivores and plants and the application of biological control as part of an ecologically-based farm management strategy.

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Also available is the paper A total system approach to sustainable pest management by Lewis, et al., appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Nov. 1997):

Lewis_Sustainable Pest Management.pdf 353.06 kB

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