| Author | : Peter A. Edde |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Release Date | : 2021-09-15 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780128186213 |
| Pages | : 1024 pages |
Field Crop Arthropod Pests of Economic Importance presents details on the bioecology of important arthropod pests of selected field crops grown in most parts of the world. It provides key information on crops that are attacked and includes factors favouring crop growth and development. Management options for insect pest control on crops include biological, cultural, and chemical methods. However, agricultural crops provide food to a wide range of insect pests throughout the year, which makes it difficult to find a simple solution for insect pest control in most cropping systems. A whole-farm approach or integrated pest management combines cultural, natural, and chemical controls to maintain insect pest populations below levels that cause economic damage to the crop. However, accurate species identification and thorough knowledge of the biology and ecology of the target organism is important. Integration and effective use of various control components is often enhanced when the target organism is correctly identified, and its biology and ecology are known. Students and professionals in agronomy and economic entomology will find this book a valuable learning aid and resource tool. Includes insect synonyms, common names, and geographic distribution Provides information on natural enemies Thoroughly referenced for future research
| Author | : N.A |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 1966-04 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 329 pages |
| Author | : Carl W. Schaefer,Antonio Ricardo Panizzi |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Release Date | : 2000-07-28 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1420041851 |
| Pages | : 856 pages |
Heteropterans regularly cause a wide variety and large number of problems for humans - at times on a catastrophic scale. The 37,000 described species of this suborder including many pests, disease transmitters, and nuisances exist worldwide, inflicting damage on crops, forests, orchards, and human life. Inspired by the widespread economic impact of
| Author | : United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 1976 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 176 pages |
| Author | : N.A |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 1975 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 329 pages |
| Author | : Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy,Shakunthala Sridhara |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Release Date | : 2016-10-20 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9811015244 |
| Pages | : 422 pages |
Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to human communities, and are important indicators of environmental change. Yet the population trends of several arthropods species show them to be in decline. Arthropods constitute a dominant group with 1.2 million species influencing earth’s biodiversity. Among arthropods, insects are predominant, with ca. 1 million species and having evolved some 350 million years ago. Arthropods are closely associated with living and non-living entities alike, making the ecosystem services they provide crucially important. In order to be effective, plans for the conservation of arthropods and ecosystems should include a mixture of strategies like protecting key habitats and genomic studies to formulate relevant policies for in situ and ex situ conservation. This two-volume book focuses on capturing the essentials of arthropod inventories, biology, and conservation. Further, it seeks to identify the mechanisms by which arthropod populations can be sustained in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and by means of which certain problematic species be managed without producing harmful environmental side-effects. This edited compilation includes chapters contributed by over 80 biologists on a wide range of topics embracing the diversity, distribution, utility and conservation of arthropods and select groups of insect taxa. More importantly, it describes in detail the mechanisms of sustaining arthropod ecosystems, services and populations. It addresses the contribution of modern biological tools such as molecular and genetic techniques regulating gene expression, as well as conventional, indigenous practices in arthropod conservation. The contributors reiterate the importance of documenting and understanding the biology of arthropods from a holistic perspective before addressing conservation issues at large. This book offers a valuable resource for all zoologists, entomologists, ecologists, conservation biologists, policy makers, teachers and students interested in the conservation of biological resources.
| Author | : David Ben-Yakir |
| Publisher | : CABI |
| Release Date | : 2020-06-05 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1786394707 |
| Pages | : 190 pages |
Arthropods as pests in crops, vectors of diseases, pollinators, and natural enemies of pests are of huge economic importance. They affect livestock, human health and food supplies around the world. This unique book examines and reviews how light and colour can be used to enhance pest management in agricultural and medical applications by manipulating the optical responses of arthropods. Arthropods use optical cues to find food, oviposition sites and to navigate. Light also regulates their diurnal and seasonal activities. Plants use optical cues to attract or deter various species of arthropod. In this book, an international team of experts show how light can be used successfully to attract, arrest, confuse and deter arthropods as well as to disrupt their biological clocks.
| Author | : Mahāwitthayālai Chīang Mai |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 2001 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 329 pages |
| Author | : G. Gurr,S.D. Wratten |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Release Date | : 2012-12-06 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9401140146 |
| Pages | : 429 pages |
As well as examining successful biological control programmes this book analyses why the majority of attempts fail. Off-target and other negative effects of biological control are also dealt with. Chapters contributed by leading international researchers and practitioners in all areas of biological control afford the book a breadth of coverage and depth of analysis not possible with a single author volume. Combined with the use of other experts to review chapters and editorial oversight to ensure thematic integrity of the volume, this book provides the most authoritative analysis of biological control published. Key aspects addressed include how success may be measured, how successful biological control has been to date and how may it be made more successful in the future. With extensive use of contemporary examples, photographs, figures and tables this book will be invaluable to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as being a `must' for all involved in making biological control successful.
| Author | : Billy R. Wiseman,James A. Webster |
| Publisher | : Entomological Society of Amer |
| Release Date | : 1999 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 189 pages |
| Author | : Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ) |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 1975 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 329 pages |