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Keywords: classical biocontrol, the loss of registered pesticides offers a challenge to biological control workers, legislative changes, resistance to pesticides, challenges to biological control for the 21st century, the increasing need, the biodiversity issue, art-into-science challenge, conservation of natural enemies, compatibility of pesticides and natural enemies, potential new technologies, transgenic natural enemies, molecular tools for biological control, effects on nontarget species, global cooperation, augmentative biological control, conservation of natural enemies, educational changes