Impulsive Biological Pest Control Strategies of the Sugarcane Borer

Marat Rafikov, Alfredo Del Sole Lordelo and Elvira Rafikova

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2012, vol. 2012, 1-14

Abstract:

We propose an impulsive biological pest control of the sugarcane borer ( Diatraea saccharalis ) by its egg parasitoid Trichogramma galloi based on a mathematical model in which the sugarcane borer is represented by the egg and larval stages, and the parasitoid is considered in terms of the parasitized eggs. By using the Floquet theory and the small amplitude perturbation method, we show that there exists a globally asymptotically stable pest-eradication periodic solution when some conditions hold. The numerical simulations show that the impulsive release of parasitoids provides reliable strategies of the biological pest control of the sugarcane borer.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1155/2012/726783

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