What's New

• Lady Beetle Special: Lady beetle, lady beetle fly away from my home! - April 22, 2002
• Campylomma verbasci - a predator of pest insects -December 10, 2001
• Hemerobius spp. - a predator of pest insects - October 18, 2001
• Chilocorus stigma - a predator of pest insects - October 18, 2001
• Pseudacteon spp. - page updated by author April 4, 2001
• Trichoderma spp. - a beneficial organism with multiple uses, including enhancement of root growth and protection of plants against harmful fungi - January 10, 2001
• Biocontrol: Guía de los Enemigos Naturales - A translation of this web site into Spanish (off site) - November 10, 2000
• Phalangium opilio - a spider - March 30, 2000
• Catolaccus grandis - a parasitoid of boll weevil - February 18, 2000
• Pelochrista medullana - a biocontrol agent of spotted and diffuse knapweed -
  February 7, 2000
• Rodolia cardinalis - page updated February 7, 2000
• Pseudomonas syringae and fruit yeasts - antagonists of necrotrophic pathogens of stored apple, pear, citrus, and banana - January 26, 2000
• Trichopoda pennipes - page updated January 10, 2000
• Lebia grandis - a predator/parasitoid of the Colorado potato beetle - updated and expanded October 26, 1999
• Trichogramma ostriniae - a parasitoid of corn borer - May 6, 1999
• Bacillus popilliae - a pathogen of Japanese beetle and other scarabs - February 23, 1999
• Phanerochaete (=Peniophora, =Phlebia, =Phlebiopsis, =Peniophora) gigantea, - an antagonist of pine root rot - February 12, 1999
• Dedaeocoris nebulosus - a generalist predator - January 5, 1999
• Proceedings of the Cornell Community Biological Control Conference (off site) - Poster abstracts and conference presentations are available on the Web along with other conference information - November 12, 1996

What's Coming

• Vogtia malloi - a phycitid stemboring moth that attacks alligatorweed (by Stratford Kay)
• Ipheseius degenerans - a predaceous mite attacking citrus thrips (by Beth Grafton-Cardwell)
• Microctonus aethiopoides - a parasitoid of alfalfa weevil adults (by David Hogg)
• Perillus bioculatus - a predator of Colorado potato beetle (by Judy Hough-Goldstein)
• Pediobius foveolatus - a predator of Mexican bean beetle (by Joanne Whalen)
• Hyperaspis spp. - parasitoids of pine tortoise scale (by Bryan Bishop)
• Neozygites fresenii - a fungal pathogen of cotton aphid (by Don Steinkraus)
• Actinomyces - a turfgrass bc agent (by Christine Stockwell)
• Storage rot/mold antagonists (by Wojciech Janisiewicz)
• Trichoderma harzianum - an antagonist of pathogenic root fungi
• Aphytis melinus - a parasitoid of armored scale
• Diaeretiella rapae - a parasitoid wasp of aphids
• Lydella thompsonii - a parasitoid of European corn borer

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