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BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF INSECT PESTS<br />

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<strong>Field</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Discovery</strong>-<strong>based</strong> <strong>Exercises</strong> <strong>for</strong> Organic Vegetable Production<br />

This sub-section considers the best practices and experiences shared by FFS farmers and<br />

other organic agriculture practitioners on the use <strong>of</strong> living organisms to suppress insect pest<br />

populations, which can be integrated with other compatible control methods. Biological<br />

control involves use <strong>of</strong> parasitoids (e.g., Trichogramma, Diadegma, Trathala, and Cotasia), predators<br />

(e.g., earwigs, ladybird beetles, flower bugs), and insect pathogens (e.g., bacteria, fungi, viruses,<br />

protozoa’s) to reduce insect pest populations. A unique feature <strong>of</strong> this sub-section is integration<br />

<strong>of</strong> exercises on farm- or village-level production and use <strong>of</strong> several biological control agents <strong>for</strong><br />

insect pest management, such as Nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV), insect pathogens Metarhizium<br />

anisopliae or green muscardine fungus (GMF) and Beauveria bassiana or white muscardine fungus<br />

(WMF), Trichogramma parasitoid, and predator earwig (Euborellia annulata).

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