Molluscs as crop pests /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002.
• Subjects: Mollusks.; Agricultural pests.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Field Crops, (New March 2000); Forage and Fodder Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Biological Control.; Environmental Pest Management.; Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Reproduction, Development and Life Cycle (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Behaviour (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Baits.; Biological control.; Chemical control.; Cultural control.; Feeding preferences.; Field crops.; Fodder crops.; Horticultural crops.; Life history.; Mollusc control.; Molluscicides.; Natural enemies.; Plant pests.; Reproduction.; Reviews.; Sexual behaviour.; Electronic books.
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This 19-chapter book discusses the biology (including reproduction, life history, feeding preferences and sexual behaviour) of molluscs as pests of horticultural, field and fodder crops, and outlines the development of appropriate mechanisms for the control of these pests (mainly biological, cultura...

Table of Contents:

• Chemical Control of Terrestrial Gastropods / Ian Henderson and Rita Triebskorn
• Molluscicidal Baits for Control of Terrestrial Gastropods / Stuart E.R. Bailey
• Achatina fulica Bowdich and Other Achatinidae as Pests in Tropical Agriculture / S.K. Raut and Gary M. Barker
• Vaginulidae in Central America, with Emphasis on the Bean Slug Sarasinula plebeia (Fischer) / Alfredo Rueda, Rafael Caballero, Rina Kaminsky and Keith L. Andrews
• Apple Snails (Ampullariidae) as Agricultural Pests : their Biology, Impacts and Management / Robert H. Cowie
• Helicidae and Hygromiidae as Pests in Cereal Crops and Pastures in Southern Australia / Geoff H. Baker
• Planorbidae and Lymnaeidae as Pests of Rice, with Particular Reference to Isidorella newcombi (Adams & Angus) / Mark M. Stevens
• Urocyclus flavescens Kerferstein (Urocyclidae) as a Pest of Banana in South Africa / Karen de Jager and Mieke Daneel
• Bradybaena similaris (de Férussac) (Bradybaenidae) as a Pest on Grapevines of Taiwan / Chia-Pao Chang
• Agriolimacidae, Arionidae and Milacidae as Pests in West European Sunflower and Maize / Gérard Hommay
• Helicidae as Pests in Australian and South African Grapevines / Graeme Sanderson and Willem Sirgel
• Agriolimacidae, Arionidae and Milacidae as Pests in West European Cereals / David M. Glen and Robert Moens
• Agriolimacidae and Arionidae as Pests in Conservation-tillage Soybean and Maize Cropping in North America / Ronald B. Hammond and Robert A. Byers
• Bradybaena ravida (Benson) (Bradybaenidae) in Cereal-Cotton Rotations of Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province, China / Chen De-niu, Zhang Guo-qing, Xu Wenxian, Wang Man-sheng, Liu Yanhong, Cheng Xingmin and Wu Jiqing
• Agriolimacidae and Arionidae as Pests in Lucerne and Other Legumes in Forage Systems of North-eastern North America / Robert A. Byers
• Gastropods as Pests in Vegetable and Ornamental Crops in Western Europe / Gordon Port and Albert Ester
• Integrated Management of Cantareus aspersus (Müller) (Helicidae) as a Pest of Citrus in California / Nick J. Sakovich
• Gastropods as Pests in New Zealand Pastoral Agriculture, with Emphasis on Agriolimacidae, Arionidae and Milacidae / Gary M. Barker
• Agriolimacidae, Arionidae and Milacidae as Pests in West European Oilseed Rape / Robert Moens and David M. Glen.