1. Editorial: Demonstrating the safety of biocontrol

   • Heikki M. T. Hokkanen

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 1 - 1

2. Environmental risk assessment of exotic natural enemies used in inundative biological control

   • J.C. van Lenteren
   • D. Babendreier
   • Q.-Q. Zeng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 38

3. Interaction between Podisus maculiventris and Harmonia axyridis two predators used in augmentative biological control in greenhouse crops

   • Patrick De Clercq
   • Ilse Peeters
   • Olivier Thas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 55

4. Effect of temperature on intrinsic rates of natural increase (r_m) of a coccinellid and its spider mite prey

   • Michèle Roy
   • Jacques Brodeur
   • Conrad Cloutier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 72

5. Role of rice volatiles in the foraging behaviour of the predator Cyrtorhinus lividipennis for the rice brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens

   • Yong-Gen Lou
   • Jia-An Cheng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 86

6. A simple method to estimate percentage parasitism when the host and parasitoid phenologies are unknown: A statistical approach

   • Edward Ruiz-Narváez
   • Nelsy Castro-Webb

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 100

7. A cypovirus from the South American oil-palm pest Norape argyrrhorea and its potential as a microbial control agent

   • Jean-Louis Zeddam
   • Julio Arroyo Cruzado
   • Ernesto Candiotti Subilete

   OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 112

8. Biology and host range of the stem-boring beetle Aphanasium australe, a promising agent for the biological control of Hakea sericea in South Africa

   • A.J. Gordon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 122