Contaminants can harm wildlife. However, measuring wildlife exposure to contaminants can be challenging due to accessibility of species and/or sampling tissue matrices needed to assess wildlife health risks. For example, in bats and other taxa that use roosts, collecting feces under colonies minimizes disturbance to species of conservation concern, but fecal contaminant concentrations may not directly correlate with tissue con...

Numerous studies conducted on a variety of temporal and spatial scales around the world show that dipteran parasitoids can exert effective control over some insect pests. This paper provides an overview of major examples of successful classical and augmentative biological control initiatives, organized by major dipteran families which include parasitoid species (i.e., Tachinidae, Phoridae, Sarcophagidae, Cryptochetidae, Bombyl...

The role of dipteran predators in biological pest control programs is reviewed and discussed. Diptera encompasses a large number of potentially efficient predators for biological pest control, yet only a few species are routinary used. The families Syrphidae and Cecidomyiidae provide some of the most successful examples of biological control, but other families (e.g., Muscidae, Sarcophagidae, Sciomyzidae) also include species...