How can Success be Improved?
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Choosing the target weed
Choosing agent collection area
Choosing natural enemies to study
Improving host specificity
Obtaining adequate resources

Questions of how to improve the rate of success of biological control have vexed researchers for a long time. The difficulty is that each project has a unique set of circumstances and interactions and a large number of variables affect the outcome. In the absence of adequate numbers of well documented projects the development of useful generalisations and predictions has been limited. Some suggestions to improve efficiency or to improve success can be reached by clicking on the buttons to the left.

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Mic Julien