@article{96bedf0ab4a7401aa7ac6f3f654f1134,
title = "Pork, with a side of French flies",
author = "May Berenbaum",
note = "in the U.S. and you can't import them until an abundance of experimental evidence demonstrates that the imported species won't themselves cause damage upon introduction. Researchers at the University of California at Davis received funding from the California Department of Food and Agriculture and from the European Biological Control Laboratory (EBCL), administered by USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), as did ARS entomologist Kim Hoel-mer; who started the olive fruit fly studies while at the Montpellier lab between 1999 and 2004. This funding led to the discovery of two parasitic wasps from southern Africa, Psyttalia lounsburyi and P.concolor, that appear to be relatively host-specific and very promising candidates for classical biocontrol (Daane et al. 2008), and permits have recently been issued for their importation (Kapaun et al. 2010). of government waste or fraud. It didn't take him long to get around to identifying insect research for ridicule; one of the first awards he made (following shortly after the one to the Air Force for their now legendary \$2,000 toilet seats) was a National Science Foundation grant for a project called {"}The Sexual Behavior of the Screw-worm Fly{"} (Atkinson 1999). As it turned out, research on the sexual behavior of the screw-worm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax) at that moment in time ended up rescuing the innovative autocidal control program that had begun to fail in 1972 to 1976 and thereby rescued the livestock industry of the U.S. Southwest (Richardson et al. 1982).",
year = "2011",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/ae/57.1.4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "57",
pages = "4--5",
journal = "American Entomologist",
issn = "1046-2821",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "1",
}