Entomology category: 351 books
Dung Beetles
and a Cowman's Profits
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Dung beetles have always been nature’s greatest recyclers — in a way, they were the first organic farmers. They were also the first casualties of industrial farming. As farmers rediscover the many benefits of grass-based livestock production, dung beetles are given a solid shot at reestablishing...
Pollination Biology
Biodiversity Conservation and Agricultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
This book has a wider approach not strictly focused on crop production compared to other books that are strictly oriented towards bees, but has a generalist approach to pollination biology. It also highlights relationships between introduced and wild pollinators and consequences of such introductions...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This book is a snapshot of the current state of the art of research and development on the properties and characteristics of silk and their use in medicine and industry. The field encompasses backyard silk production from ancient time to industrial methods in the modern era and includes an example...
Trapping of Small Organisms Moving Randomly
Principles and Applications to Pest Monitoring and Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This new book is the first to make logical and important connections between trapping and foraging ecology. It develops and describes—both verbally and mathematically--the underlying principles that determine and define trap-organism interactions. More important, it goes on to explain and illustrate...
The Biology of Plant-Insect Interactions
A Compendium for the Plant Biotechnologist
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Overviews of biochemical, genetic, and molecular perspectives of plant-insect interactions with added emphasis on bioinformatic, genomic, and transcriptome analysis are comprehensively treated in this book. It presents the agro-ecological and evolutionary aspects of plant-insect interactions with...
Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour
Life at a Microscale
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
More than 40,000 species of mites have been described, and up to 1 million may exist on earth. These tiny arachnids play many ecological roles including acting as vectors of disease, vital players in soil formation, and important agents of biological control. But despite the grand diversity of mites,...
Insect Infection and Immunity
Evolution, Ecology, and Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Under continual attack from both microbial pathogens and multicellular parasites, insects must cope with immune challenges every day of their lives. However, this has not prevented them from becoming the most successful group of animals on the planet. Insects possess highly-developed innate immune...
by Glenn B. Wiggins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
The goal of much of the scientific work in natural history museums is to explore and document the biological diversity of the planet. This book is an outstanding example of the museum tradition, offering the results of global research on the biosystematics of one of the families of case-making caddisflies,...
by Simon J. M. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoologists have taken to studying such "archaeofaunal"...
by Guy Echalier, Norbert Perrimon, Stephanie E Mohr
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Drosophila Cells in Culture, Second Edition, includes comprehensive coverage of cell lines, methods for creating cell lines, methods for genome engineering, and the use of cell lines for genome wide rNAi screens. This publication summarizes over thirty years of experience in the handling of in vitro...
Management of Insect Pests to Agriculture
Lessons Learned from Deciphering their Genome, Transcriptome and Proteome
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Thanks to the application of new technologies such as whole-genome sequencing, analysis of transcriptome and proteome of insect pest to agriculture, great progress has been made in understanding the life style, reproduction, evolution and nuisance to crops caused by insect pests such as aphids,...
Biorational Control of Arthropod Pests
Application and Resistance Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
For nearly 50 years, pest control was mostly based on broad-spectrum conv- tional insecticides such as organochlorines, organophosphates, carbamates and pyrethroids. However, the severe adverse effects of pesticides on the environment, problems of resistance reaching crisis proportions and public...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The publication of the extensive seven-volume work Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science provided a complete reference encompassing important developments and achievements in modern insect science. One of the most swiftly moving areas in entomological and comparative research is molecular biology,...
by Elizabeth Jockusch
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Advances in Insect Physiology is committed to publishing volumes containing comprehensive and in-depth reviews on all aspects of insect physiology. First published in 1963, these volumes are an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists, insect neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists...