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Feasibility of acoustic detection of canegrubs for better management decisions : SRDC final report BSS300
(BSES, 2007)
Monitoring of pest populations is a key to effective management of insects in many crops, allowing pest-control treatments to be applied when needed, and only when needed. Monitoring should be relied on more for management ...
Enhanced adoption of integrated pest management in sugarcane : SRDC final report BSS225
(BSES, 2002)
The project focused on changing the way BSES engages clients in dealing with pest management issues, using the concept of participatory action-learning. Thirty-two small groups of canegrowers were formed around eight pest ...
GrubPlan 2; developing improved risk-assessment and decision-support systems for managing greyback canegrub : SRDC final report BSS257
(BSES, 2008)
The vision of the project was to provide industry with refined greyback canegrub management systems complete with risk-assessment and decision-support models that could ultimately be deployed at a commercial consultancy ...
A metarhizium-based product for control of cane pests : SRDC final report BSS134
(BSES, 2000)
The fungus Metarhizium anisopliae is a naturally occurring pathogen of soil insects in Australia. Metarhizium can be used as a bioinsecticide for control of canegrubs by mass-producing spores on rice and applying the ...
Integrated pest management of soldier fly : SRDC final report BSS160
(BSES, 2001)
Soldier flies are a serious soil-dwelling pest of cane, and there is no insecticidal control available. In large-plot trials, numbers of soldier fly larvae in plant and first ratoon crops were lower after a long fallow, ...