Entomology category: 351 books
The Sirex Woodwasp and its Fungal Symbiont:
Research and Management of a Worldwide Invasive Pest
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
The Sirex woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, is the most important invasive alien insect pest of Pinus plantations in the Southern Hemisphere. It now also threatens pines in North America. This book brings together the worldwide knowledge of researchers from Universities and Government institutions, as well...
Pheromones
Olfaction and Classification
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This book enables the students, researchers and teachers of crop protection faculty to understand and practice the pheromones of the fauna that have been designated by scientists. This compendium of information includes the following topics amongst others:
• A timeline detailing the history...
by Roxanne Charles, Asoke Kumar Basu
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Ticks of Trinidad and Tobago: An Overview explores tick species prevalent in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), their distribution, associated pathogens, their effects on the host, and control methods. The book also reviews the basic biology of ticks.
Ticks are known to parasitize a wide range...
Ticks of the Southern Cone of America
Diagnosis, Distribution, and Hosts with Taxonomy, Ecology and Sanitary Importance
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Ticks of the Southern Cone of America: Diagnosis, Distribution and Hosts with Taxonomy, Ecology and Sanitary Importance focuses on the tick species prevalent in The Southern Cone of America, including their distribution, biology, associated pathogens, their effects on the host, and control methods.
Based...
by Pranveer Singh
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book introduces readers to classical population genetics and the ways in which it can be applied to practical problems, including testing for natural selection, genetic drift, genetic differentiation, population structuring, gene flow and linkage disequilibrium. It provides a comprehensive monograph...
The Handbook of Plant Biosecurity
Principles and Practices for the Identification, Containment and Control of Organisms that Threaten Agriculture and the Environment Globally
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The Handbook identifies all aspects of Regulatory Plant Biosecurity and discusses them from the standpoint of preventing the international movement of plant pests, diseases and weeds that negatively impact production agriculture, natural plant-resources and agricultural commerce.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
The first comprehensive scholarly treatment of bed bugs since 1966
This book updates and expands on existing material on bed bugs with an emphasis on the worldwide resurgence of both the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius L., and the tropical bed bug, Cimex hemipterus (F.). It incorporates extensive...
Invasive Stink Bugs and Related Species (Pentatomoidea)
Biology, Higher Systematics, Semiochemistry, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Key features:
Presents a brief history of past classifications, a summary of present classification, and speculation on how the classification may evolve in the future
Includes keys for the identification of families and subfamilies of the Pentatomoidea and for the tribes in the Pentatomidae
Explains...
A Practical Manual Of Beekeeping
How to keep bees and develop your full potential as an apiarist
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
A fascinating hobby; a remunerative business; or a globetrotting career? Which type of beekeeper do you want to be? It is entirely up to you: beekeeping can provide it all.Beekeeping can provide anyone with an interesting and useful hobby or a lucrative and rewarding business. It is recognised as...
The Cockroach Papers
A Compendium of History and Lore
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Skittering figures of urban legend—and a ubiquitous reality—cockroaches are nearly as abhorred as they are ancient. Even as our efforts to exterminate them have developed into ever more complex forms of chemical warfare, roaches’ basic design of six legs, two hypersensitive antennae, and one...
Integrated Pest Management
Pesticide Problems, Vol.3
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
The book deals with the present state and problems of integrated pest management as relating to stakeholder acceptance of IPM and how integrated pest management can become a sustainable practice. The discussions include using less pesticides and the possibility of eliminating pesticides from agricultural practice.
by Martin Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
First published in 1989. Presents research and findings from a series of conferences in the 1980s on the use of plants in pesticides for insect control.
by Sukh Dev
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Nature has often provided valuable molecules either as lead compounds or for use in the fight against pests. Though a number of conference proceedings deal with the control of insects using natural products, there is no comprehensive account of what materials have been studied and what results have...
Arthropod Vector: Controller of Disease Transmission, Volume 2
Vector Saliva-Host-Pathogen Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Arthropod Vector: Controller of Disease Transmission, Volume 2: Vector Saliva-Host Pathogen Interactions is built on topics initially raised at a related Keystone Symposium on Arthropod Vectors. Together with the separate, related Volume 1: Controller of Disease Transmission, this work presents a...