Citation:

The first foreign explorers. Pages 137-203. In: Paul DeBach, David Rosen. 1991. Biological Control by Natural Enemies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge England UK, 440 pages.

Keywords: classical biocontrol, importation of natural enemies, some foreign explorers and famous projects, cottony-cushion scale in California 1888-1889, Icerya purchasi, gypsy moth and brown-tail moth in New England 1905-1911, Lymantria dispar, sugarcane leafhopper in Hawaii 1904-1920, Perkinsiella saccharicida, sugarcane beetle borer in Hawaii 1907-1910, Rhabdoscelus obscurus, citrus whitefly in Florida 1910-1911, Dialeurodes citri, spiny blackfly in Japan 1925, Aleurocanthus spiniferus, Prickly pear cactus in Australia 1920-1925, Cactoblastis cactorum, coconut moth in Fiji 1925, Levuana iridiscens, Eucalyptus snout-beetle in South Africa 1926, Gonipterus scutellatus, coconut scale in Fiji 1928, Aspidiotus destructor, citrophilus mealybug in California 1928, Pseudococcus calceolariae, citrus blackfly in Cuba 1930, Aleurocanthus woglumi, sugarcane borer in the Caribbean area 1932-1933, Diatraea saccharalis, coconut leaf minng beetle in Fiji 1933, Promecotheca coeruleipennis, coffee mealybug in Kenya 1938, Planococcus kenyae