Theory and practice of microbial insecticide application

Spray application takes input from a wide range of disciplines, from the traditional crop protection disciplines of entomology,weedscience, and plant pathology, formulation chemistry, and agricultural engineering, to those of fluid dynamics, meteorology, and others. In general, spray application is either largely ignored–one just sprays a crop with a microbial control agent (MCA)–or it is seen as a panacea for all ills, increasing the efficacy and effectiveness of an MCA to the point of commercial viability. Spray application is neither.