Urban Insect Pests Sustainable Management Strategies This page intentionally left blank Urban Insect Pests Sustainable Management Strategies Edited by Partho Dhang Independent Consultant Manila, Philippines CABI is a trading name of CAB International CABI CABI Nosworthy Way 38 Chauncy Street Wallingford Suite 1002 Oxfordshire, OX10 8DE Boston, MA 02111 UK USA Tel: +44 (0)1491 832111 T: +1 800 552 3083 (toll free) Fax: +44 (0)1491 833508 T: +1 617 395 4051 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.cabi.org © CAB International 2014. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronically, mechanically, by photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owners. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library, London, UK. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Urban insect pests: sustainable management strategies / edited by Partho Dhang, PhD. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-1-78064-275-8 (hbk : alk. paper) 1. Insect pests--Control--Environmental aspects. 2. Urban pests--Control--Environmental aspects. I. Dhang, Partho. II. C.A.B. International. SB938.U72 2014 632'.7--dc23 2014011551 ISBN-13: 978 1 78064 275 8 Commissioning editor: Rachel Cutts Editorial assistant: Emma McCann Production editor: Laura Tsitlidze and Claire Sissen Typeset by Columns Design XML Ltd, Reading, UK. Printed and bound in the UK by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY. Contents Contributors vii Acknowledgements ix 1 Urban Insect Pests: Sustainable Management Strategies 1 Partho Dhang 2 Bed Bug Management 8 Clive Boase and Richard Naylor 3 Emerging Technologies for Urban Mosquito Management 23 Julian Entwistle 4 Filth Fly Management in Urban Environments 43 Roberto Pereira, John Cooksey, Rebecca Baldwin and Philip Koehler 5 Sustainable Cockroach Management Using Insecticidal Baits: Formulations, Behavioural Responses and Issues 65 Hui-Siang Tee and Chow-Yang Lee 6 Fleas and Flea Management 86 Clive Boase, Alica Kocisova and Frantisek Rettich 7 Products and Strategies for Nuisance Urban Ant Management 99 Grzegorz Buczkowski and Changlu Wang 8 Management Strategies for Subterranean Termites 114 Michael Rust 9 Management of Drywood Termites: Past Practices, Present Situation and Future Prospects 130 Vernard Lewis and Brian Forschler 10 Urban Timber Pest Beetles: Risks and Management 154 Donald Ewart v vi Contents 11 Molecular Ecology Meets Urban Entomology: How Molecular Biology is Changing Urban Pest Management 166 Edward Vargo 12 Controlling Haematophagous Insects: The Quality-of-Life Scenario 181 Rajeev Vaidyanathan 13 Urban Pest Management: the Need for a Correct Mixture of Knowledge and Practice 195 Grzegorz Buczkowski 14 Marketing Integrated Pest Management as a Value-Added Service 205 Partho Dhang 15 Plants with Pest Control Properties Against Urban Pests 216 Partho Dhang and K. Purusotaman Sanjayan Index 239 Contributors Rebecca Baldwin, University of Florida, Entomology & Nematology Department, University of Florida, Building 970, Natural Area Drive, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. Email: rpereira@ufl .edu Clive Boase, The Pest Management Consultancy, Cowslip Pightle, Hazel Stub Camps Road, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 9AF, UK. Email: [email protected] Grzegorz Buczkowski, Purdue University, Department of Entomology Centre for Urban and Industrial Pest Management, Smith Hall, 901 West State Street, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. Email: [email protected] John Cooksey, University of Florida, Entomology & Nematology Department, University of Florida, Building 970, Natural Area Drive, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. Email: [email protected] Partho Dhang, Independent Consultant, 2410 Hen Belarmino Street, Bangkal, Makati City, 1233, Philippines. Email: [email protected] Julian Entwistle, Xenex Associates Ltd, Chapel House, Barns Green, Horsham, West Sussex RH13 OPR, UK. Email: [email protected] Donald Ewart, Consultant, PO Box 1044 Research 3095, Victoria, Australia. Email: don@ drdons.net Brian Forschler, University of Georgia, Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA. Email: [email protected] Alica Kocisova, Department of Parasitology, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Komenského 73, 041 81 Košice, Slovak Republic. Email: [email protected] Philip Koehler, University of Florida, Entomology & Nematology Department, University of Florida, Building 970, Natural Area Drive, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. Email: pgk@ufl .edu Chow-Yang Lee, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. Email: [email protected] Vernard Lewis, University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. University of California, Richmond Field Station, 1301 South 46th Street Building 478, Richmond, California 94804-4698, USA. Email: urbanpests@berkeley. edu Richard Naylor, The Bed Bug Foundation, Prior’s Loft, Coleford Road Tidenham, Chepstow, Monmouthshire NP16 7JD, UK. Email: [email protected] vii viii Contributors Roberto Periera, University of Florida, Entomology & Nematology Department, University of Florida, Building 970, Natural Area Drive, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. Email: rpereira@ufl .edu Frantisek Rettich, National Institute of Public Health, Czech Republic National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Srobarova 48, 100 42 Czech Republic. Email: [email protected] Michael Rust, University of California, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA. Email: michael.rust@ucr. edu Purusotaman Sanjayan, Guru Nanak College, Department of Zoology, Velachary, Chennai 42, India. Email: [email protected] Hui-Siang Tee, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. Rajeev Vaidyanathan, SRI International, 140 Research Drive, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22802, USA. Email: [email protected] Ed Vargo, North Carolina State University, 3309 Gardner Hall, Department of Entomology, Campus Box 7613, 100 Derieux Place, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7613, USA. Email: [email protected] Changlu Wang, Rutgers University, Department of Entomology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA. Email: [email protected] Acknowledgements I am thankful to all individual contributors for their valuable insights. All the information and expertise they shared in this book will remain immeasurable. I would also like to thank Ms Elaine Joshi of the Philippine Rice Research Institute, Munoz, who painstakingly checked through individual references, and my son Aman and my wife Dr Rinku who kept a count on the number of chapters I completed. I wish to acknowledge my special appreciation to the publisher CAB International for accepting this book for publication. Partho Dhang 15 November 2013 Manila, Philippines ix