Biorational tree-fruit pest management /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Subjects: Fruit > Diseases and pests.; Pests > Integrated control.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Integrated Pest Management.; Insects.; Plants.; Animal behaviour.; Behaviour.; Fruit trees.; Hosts.; Insect pests.; Integrated control.; Integrated pest management.; Monitoring.; Pest control.; Plant disease control.; Plant diseases.; Plant pests.; Tree fruits.; Trees.; Woody plants.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 295 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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This book contains 9 chapters that cover topics on: conceptual framework for integrated pest management of tree-fruit pests; the evolution of key tree-fruit pests (classical cases); functional and behavioural ecology of tree-fruit pests; how do key tree-fruit pests detect and colonize their hosts (mechanisms and applications for integrated pest management); monitoring and management of the apple maggot fly and the plum curculio; trying to build an ecological orchards (a history of apple integrated pest management in Massachusetts, USA); managing pestiferous fruit flies through environmental manipulation; biorational approaches to disease management in apples; speciation, consumers and the market.