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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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 (m...

Table of Contents:

• Conceptual framework for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of tree-fruit pests / Marcos Kogan and Richard J. Hilton
• The evolution of key tree fruit pests : classical cases / Stewart H. Berlocher and Jeffrey L. Feder
• Functional and behavioral ecology of tree-fruit pests : the four f's of fruit flies / Bernard D. Roitberg, Carol R. Lauzon, Susan B. Opp and Dan R. Papaj
• How do key tree-fruit pests detect and colonise their hosts : mechanisms and applications for IPM / Silvia Dorn and Jaime C. Piñero
• Monitoring and management of the apple maggot fly and the plum Curculio : honoring the legacy of R.J. Prokopy / Tracy C. Leskey, Gérald Chouinard and Charles Vincent
• Trying to build an ecological orchard : a history of apple IPM in Massachusetts / Daniel R. Cooley and William M. Coli
• Managing pestiferous fruit flies through environmental manipulation / Martín Aluja and Juan Rull
• Biorational approaches to disease management in apples / Daniel R. Cooley
• Speciation, consumers and the market : profit with a conscience / Thomas A. Green and Starker Wright.