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Biological Control Research Lab
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A research facility for biological control, which prevents pests with the power of natural enemies instead of chemical pesticides.
AboutAbout the lab
Using natural enemies to control pests
The Biological Control Research Facility conducts research and education on "biological control," which uses natural enemies to control pests.
Natural enemies are insects and microorganisms that use pests as prey or as hosts, and through them pests are kept in check without chemical pesticides.
The facility also studies integrated pest management (IPM), which combines the use of microbial natural enemies, parasitoid insects, and predatory small animals with other control measures.
The facility consists of the Division of Microbial Natural Enemies and the Division of Natural Enemy Propagation, and its website describes it as the only institution in Asia that conducts specialized research and education in biological control.
Key terms
- Biological control
- A method of controlling pests using natural enemies, without chemical pesticides
- Insect-pathogenic microorganisms
- Microorganisms that infect insects; they are used as natural enemies to control pests
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- A system that manages pests by combining the use of natural enemies with chemical, cultural, and physical control and other measures
ResearchResearch themes
The facility studies pest control using natural enemies (beneficial insects and useful microorganisms) from both the microbial and the insect side. The research page introduces the work divided between the Division of Microbial Natural Enemies and the Division of Natural Enemy Propagation.
*Illustrative imagePest control with insect-pathogenic microorganisms
In addition to pest control with insect-pathogenic microorganisms, the facility studies the infection and proliferation of entomopathogenic filamentous fungi, opportunistic pathogenic bacteria, the infection and proliferation of insect-pathogenic protozoa, and host defense in insect microbial diseases.
*Illustrative imagePest control with parasitic and predatory natural enemies
The Division of Natural Enemy Propagation studies pest control with parasitic and predatory natural enemies, as well as the ecology of those natural enemies. It also works on the biological control of scale insects on citrus and of greenhouse pests.
MembersFaculty
The staff of the Biological Control Research Facility consists of the facility director, faculty members, a Project Assistant Professor, research support staff, and administrative staff of the facility office.As of 2026
- ProfessorKeishi Takasu
- ProfessorChisa Aoki
- Assistant ProfessorHiromi Nishi
- Project Assistant ProfessorNaoya Wasano
- ProfessorMidori Tsuda
- Associate ProfessorTakatoshi Ueno
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Biological pest control ( )” Ton Rulkens from Mozambique / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Pest control with insect-pathogenic microorganisms: “Entomophagamaimaiga azygospores” US Forest Service / Public domain (cropped)
- Pest control with parasitic and predatory natural enemies: “Parasitoid 1 Belgium” Moon rabbit 365 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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