List of works - Matthew J.W. Cock

A baseline study using Plantwise information to assess the contribution of extension services to the uptake of augmentative biological control in selected low- to lower- middle- income countries

A highly-simplified and inexpensive MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry sample-preparation method with broad applicability to microorganisms, plants, and insects

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

A new species and taxonomic changes relating to the Notodontidae (Lepidoptera) of Trinidad, West Indies

scholarly article published in 2021

Annotated list of Mimallonidae (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea) from Trinidad and Tobago, with the description of a new species of Cicinnus Blanchard, 1852 and taxonomic notes

scientific article

Assessment of potential biopesticide options for managing fall armyworm (<i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i>) in Africa

scientific article published in 2018

Author Correction: Ecological pest control fortifies agricultural growth in Asia-Pacific economies

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Batrachedra nuciferae, an inflorescence-feeding moth associated with coconut, Cocos nucifera, and palmiste, Roystonea oleracea, in Trinidad, West Indies

scientific article

Biopiracy rules should not block biological control ⬇️

scientific article published on September 23, 2010

Citizen science to monitor the establishment and spread of a biological control agent: the case of Pareuchaetes pseudoinsulata (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) for the control of Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae) in South and South-East Asia

scientific article published in 2023

Classical biological control of insect pests of trees: facts and figures

article by Marc Kenis et al published 20 March 2017 in Biological Invasions

Climate-smart pest management: building resilience of farms and landscapes to changing pest threats

scholarly article

Comment (Case 3752) – Support for proposed precedence of Curculio antirrhini Paykull, 1800 (currently Rhinusa antirrhini; Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionoidea, Curculionidae) over Curculio noctis Herbst, 1795

scientific article

Continental-scale suppression of an invasive pest by a host-specific parasitoid underlines both environmental and economic benefits of arthropod biological control ⬇️

scientific article published in 2018

Do new Access and Benefit Sharing procedures under the Convention on Biological Diversity threaten the future of biological control?

Ecological effects of invasive alien insects

article by Marc Kenis et al published 24 July 2008 in Biological Invasions

Ecological effects of invasive alien insects

article

Ecological pest control fortifies agricultural growth in Asia-Pacific economies

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Erratum to: Trends in the classical biological control of insect pests by insects: an update of the BIOCAT database

scholarly article published in BioControl

Exotic biological control agents: A solution or contribution to arthropod invasions?

Exotic ladybirds for biological control of herbivorous insects – a review

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Fall Armyworm: Impacts and Implications for Africa

article published in 2017

Gamelia bennetti sp. nov., a new Saturniidae species from Trinidad and Tobago (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea)

scientific article

Ghost-moths of Trinidad and Tobago with description of a new genus and a new species (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

Host Specificity of Epiplema albida: A Potential Biological Control Agent for Sri Lankan Privet in the Mascarene Islands

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Molecular methods to detect Spodoptera frugiperda in Ghana, and implications for monitoring the spread of invasive species in developing countries. ⬇️

scientific article

Neotropical palm-inflorescence feeding moths (Lepidoptera: Batrachedridae, Blastobasidae, Cosmopterigidae, Gelechiidae, Pyralidae, Tineidae): a review of the literature and new records from Trinidad, West Indies

article published in 2013

New World Orphanostigma Guenée, 1854, including a new species from Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae)

scientific article published in 2024

Observations on White Grubs Affecting Sugar Cane at the Juba Sugar Project, South-Western Somalia, in the 1980s, and Implications for Their Management

scientific article

Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) with particular reference to Kenya. Part 11. Heteropterinae

scientific article (publication date: 30 January 2017)

Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 5. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dicotyledon Feeders

scientific article (publication date: 25 October 2013)

Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 8. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dracaena Feeders.

scientific article

Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) with particular reference to Kenya. Part 10. Pyrginae, Carcharodini

scientific article (publication date: 5 October 2016)

Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 12. New information and corrections

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 6. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: palm feeders

scientific article (publication date: 8 July 2014)

Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 7. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: grass and bamboo feeders

scientific article (publication date: 10 October 2014)

Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 9. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Zingiberales feeders, genera of unknown biology and an overview of the Hesperiinae incertae sedis

scientific article

Safeguarding the environment, food security and livelihoods from invasive species using biological controls

article

Shifting paradigms in the history of classical biological control

Taxonomic changes in the Neotropical Arctiinae, Arctiini (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) relating to the fauna of Trinidad and Tobago ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

The Corkscrew Moths (Lepidoptera, Geometroidea, Sematuridae) of Trinidad and Tobago ⬇️

The biology of Epiplema albida (Hampson, 1891) (Lepidoptera, Uraniidae, Epipleminae) on Sri Lankan Privet, Ligustrum robustum (Roxb.) Blume subsp. walkeri (Decne.) P. S. Green (Oleaceae) ⬇️

The implications of climate change for positive contributions of invertebrates to world agriculture

The positive contribution of invertebrates to sustainable agriculture and food security

The potential for biological control of invasive alien aquatic weeds in Europe: a review

article

The potential for biological control of invasive alien aquatic weeds in Europe: a review

Trends in the classical biological control of insect pests by insects: an update of the BIOCAT database

article by Matthew J. W. Cock et al published 26 February 2016 in BioControl

Unravelling the status of partially identified insect biological control agents introduced to control insects: an analysis of BIOCAT2010

scholarly article

Using DNA barcodes to test the association of sexes and morphs in Calodesma spp. (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini, Pericopina) of Trinidad, West Indies, with an overview of the genus, taxonomic changes and a new species ⬇️

scientific article published in 2023

Weevils as Targets for Biological Control, and the Importance of Taxonomy and Phylogeny for Efficacy and Biosafety

scholarly article by Barbara Ingeborg Patricia Barratt et al published 25 July 2018 in Diversity

Will the Convention on Biological Diversity put an end to biological control?

article published in 2011

List of works by Matthew J.W. Cock

A baseline study using Plantwise information to assess the contribution of extension services to the uptake of augmentative biological control in selected low- to lower- middle- income countries

A highly-simplified and inexpensive MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry sample-preparation method with broad applicability to microorganisms, plants, and insects

A new species and taxonomic changes relating to the Notodontidae (Lepidoptera) of Trinidad, West Indies

Annotated list of Mimallonidae (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea) from Trinidad and Tobago, with the description of a new species of Cicinnus Blanchard, 1852 and taxonomic notes

Assessment of potential biopesticide options for managing fall armyworm (<i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i>) in Africa

Author Correction: Ecological pest control fortifies agricultural growth in Asia-Pacific economies

Batrachedra nuciferae, an inflorescence-feeding moth associated with coconut, Cocos nucifera, and palmiste, Roystonea oleracea, in Trinidad, West Indies

Biopiracy rules should not block biological control ⬇️

Citizen science to monitor the establishment and spread of a biological control agent: the case of Pareuchaetes pseudoinsulata (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) for the control of Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae) in South and South-East Asia

Classical biological control of insect pests of trees: facts and figures

Climate-smart pest management: building resilience of farms and landscapes to changing pest threats

Comment (Case 3752) – Support for proposed precedence of Curculio antirrhini Paykull, 1800 (currently Rhinusa antirrhini; Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionoidea, Curculionidae) over Curculio noctis Herbst, 1795

Continental-scale suppression of an invasive pest by a host-specific parasitoid underlines both environmental and economic benefits of arthropod biological control ⬇️

Do new Access and Benefit Sharing procedures under the Convention on Biological Diversity threaten the future of biological control?

Ecological effects of invasive alien insects

Ecological effects of invasive alien insects

Ecological pest control fortifies agricultural growth in Asia-Pacific economies

Erratum to: Trends in the classical biological control of insect pests by insects: an update of the BIOCAT database

Exotic biological control agents: A solution or contribution to arthropod invasions?

Exotic ladybirds for biological control of herbivorous insects – a review

Fall Armyworm: Impacts and Implications for Africa

Gamelia bennetti sp. nov., a new Saturniidae species from Trinidad and Tobago (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea)

Ghost-moths of Trinidad and Tobago with description of a new genus and a new species (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)

Host Specificity of Epiplema albida: A Potential Biological Control Agent for Sri Lankan Privet in the Mascarene Islands

Molecular methods to detect Spodoptera frugiperda in Ghana, and implications for monitoring the spread of invasive species in developing countries. ⬇️

Neotropical palm-inflorescence feeding moths (Lepidoptera: Batrachedridae, Blastobasidae, Cosmopterigidae, Gelechiidae, Pyralidae, Tineidae): a review of the literature and new records from Trinidad, West Indies

New World Orphanostigma Guenée, 1854, including a new species from Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae)

Observations on White Grubs Affecting Sugar Cane at the Juba Sugar Project, South-Western Somalia, in the 1980s, and Implications for Their Management

Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) with particular reference to Kenya. Part 11. Heteropterinae

Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 5. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dicotyledon Feeders

Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 8. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dracaena Feeders.

Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) with particular reference to Kenya. Part 10. Pyrginae, Carcharodini

Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 12. New information and corrections

Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 6. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: palm feeders

Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 7. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: grass and bamboo feeders

Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 9. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Zingiberales feeders, genera of unknown biology and an overview of the Hesperiinae incertae sedis

Safeguarding the environment, food security and livelihoods from invasive species using biological controls

Shifting paradigms in the history of classical biological control

Taxonomic changes in the Neotropical Arctiinae, Arctiini (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) relating to the fauna of Trinidad and Tobago ⬇️

The Corkscrew Moths (Lepidoptera, Geometroidea, Sematuridae) of Trinidad and Tobago ⬇️

The biology of Epiplema albida (Hampson, 1891) (Lepidoptera, Uraniidae, Epipleminae) on Sri Lankan Privet, Ligustrum robustum (Roxb.) Blume subsp. walkeri (Decne.) P. S. Green (Oleaceae) ⬇️

The implications of climate change for positive contributions of invertebrates to world agriculture

The positive contribution of invertebrates to sustainable agriculture and food security

The potential for biological control of invasive alien aquatic weeds in Europe: a review

The potential for biological control of invasive alien aquatic weeds in Europe: a review

Trends in the classical biological control of insect pests by insects: an update of the BIOCAT database

Unravelling the status of partially identified insect biological control agents introduced to control insects: an analysis of BIOCAT2010

Using DNA barcodes to test the association of sexes and morphs in Calodesma spp. (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini, Pericopina) of Trinidad, West Indies, with an overview of the genus, taxonomic changes and a new species ⬇️

Weevils as Targets for Biological Control, and the Importance of Taxonomy and Phylogeny for Efficacy and Biosafety

Will the Convention on Biological Diversity put an end to biological control?

Zygaenidae from Trinidad, West Indies