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Keywords: some potential applications of biotechnology to arthropod natural enemies, what genetic manipulations of beneficial arthropods might be useful?, steps in genetic manipulation by recombinant DNA methods, risk issues associated with releasing transgenic arthropods, outline of the steps involved in genetic engineering, some potential methods for stably transforming arthropods other than Drosophila, potential germ-line transformation methods, what genes are available?, importance of appropriate regulatory signals, some cloned resistance genes possibly useful for genetic manipulation of beneficial arthropods, identifying stably transformed arthropods, risks associated with releases of transgenic arthropods