Urban insect pests : sustainable management strategies /

This book, inclusive of 15 chapters, focuses on current control strategies and approaches to urban insect pest management. Control methods for bedbugs, urban mosquitoes, filth flies, cockroaches, fleas, ants, subterranean termites, drywood termites and timber pest beetles are described. Concepts in...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
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505 0 # |a Urban Insect Pests : Sustainable Management Strategies / Partho Dhang -- Bed Bug Management / Clive Boase and Richard Naylor -- Emerging Technologies for Urban Mosquito Management / Julian Entwistle -- Filth Fly Management in Urban Environments / Roberto Pereira, John Cooksey, Rebecca Baldwin and Philip Koehler -- Sustainable Cockroach Management Using Insecticidal Baits : Formulations, Behavioural Responses and Issues / Hui-Siang Tee and Chow-Yang Lee -- Fleas and Flea Management / Clive Boase, Alica Kocisova and Frantisek Rettich -- Products and Strategies for Nuisance Urban Ant Management / Grzegorz Buczkowski and Changlu Wang -- Management Strategies for Subterranean Termites / Michael Rust -- Management of Drywood Termites : Past Practices, Present Situation and Future Prospects / Vernard Lewis and Brian Forschler -- Urban Timber Pest Beetles : Risks and Management / Donald Ewart -- Molecular Ecology Meets Urban Entomology : How Molecular Biology is Changing Urban Pest Management / Edward Vargo -- Controlling Haematophagous Insects : The Quality-of-Life Scenario / Rajeev Vaidyanathan -- Urban Pest Management : the Need for a Correct Mixture of Knowledge and Practice / Grzegorz Buczkowski -- Marketing Integrated Pest Management as a Value-Added Service / Partho Dhang -- Plants with Pest Control Properties Against Urban Pests / Partho Dhang and K. Purusotaman Sanjayan. 
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520 3 # |a This book, inclusive of 15 chapters, focuses on current control strategies and approaches to urban insect pest management. Control methods for bedbugs, urban mosquitoes, filth flies, cockroaches, fleas, ants, subterranean termites, drywood termites and timber pest beetles are described. Concepts in integrated pest management and molecular ecology are also discussed, as well as plants with pest control properties. With these contents, this book will be of great use to both pest control professionals and consumers. 
530 # # |a Also available in print format. 
588 # # |a Title from PDF title page (viewed November 13, 2014). 
650 # 0 |a Insect pests  |x Control  |x Environmental aspects. 
650 # 0 |a Urban pests  |x Control  |x Environmental aspects. 
650 # 4 |a Biological Control. 
650 # 4 |a Environmental Pest Management. 
650 # 4 |a Integrated Pest Management. 
650 # 4 |a Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Pesticide and Drug Resistance. 
650 # 4 |a Other Control Measures. 
650 # 4 |a Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000) 
650 # 7 |a Arthropod pests.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Baiting.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Baits.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Control methods.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Environmental control.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Insect traps.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Insecticidal plants.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Insecticide resistance.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Insecticides.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Integrated pest management.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Molecular biology.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Pest control.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Sanitation.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Urban areas.  |2 cabt 
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700 1 # |a Dhang, Partho,  |e editor of compilation. 
710 2 # |a C.A.B. International,  |e issuing body. 
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