Timeline of Insect Biological Control Introductions Across the Asia-Pacific Region (IMAGE)

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Timeline of Insect Biological Control Introductions Across the Asia-Pacific Region

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The total number of country-level introductions and first regional deployments of a given biological control agent is depicted for successive decades, over a 1918-2018 window. For instance, BIOCAT contained two introductions of the larval parasitoid Psyttalia humilis (Silvestri) against Tephritid fruit flies, i.e., a first regional use in 1927 (Cook Islands) followed by a second country-level deployment in 1935 on Fiji. All introductions pertain to the deployment of insect natural enemies for insect pest management in local food and agricultural production. Records are drawn from CABI's BIOCAT database.

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