Insect pest management /

• Main Author: Dent, David, Ph. D., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2000.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Subjects: Insect pests > Integrated control.; Laws and Regulations.; Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Biological Control.; Environmental Pest Management.; Integrated Pest Management.; Pesticides and Drugs (General); Host Resistance and Immunity.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Protozoan, Helminth, Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals, (New March 2000); Storage Problems and Pests of Food.; Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000); Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Insects.; Agricultural entomology.; Biological control.; Cultural control.; Forecasting.; Forest pests.; Insect control.; Insect pests.; Insecticides.; Integrated pest management.; Legislation.; Medical entomology.; Monitoring.; Natural enemies.; Pest control.; Pest management.; Pest resistance.; Plant pests.; Sampling.; Stored products pests.; Veterinary entomology.; Yield losses.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 410 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-398) and index.
• ISBN: 0851993400 (hc. : alk. paper); 0851993419 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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This book aims to provide an overview of insect pest management for undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers. Emphasis is placed on the underlying principles and experimental approaches to the science that underpins the development of working integrated pest management systems. Case studies and examples from a range of entomological disciplines, veterinary, medical, agricultural, forestry and postharvest systems, are used. Chapters are included on the following topics: an introduction to pest management; sampling, monitoring and forecasting; yield loss; insecticides; host plant resistance; biological control; cultural and interference methods; legislation, codes of conduct and conventions; programme design, management and implementation; and driving forces and future prospects for IPM.