Product Description: The study of insects at low temperature is a comparatively new field. Only recently has insect cryobiology begun to mature, as research moves from a descriptive approach to a search for underlying mechanisms at diverse levels of organization ranging from the gene and cell to ecological and evolutionary relationships...read more

Product Description: This pathbreaking volume summarizes and analyzes recent developments in the promising area of using high and low extreme temperatures as a means of pest control. The book outlines the biophysics of heat transfer, the physiology of heat: and cold sensitivity, and temperature regulation in insects, and then discusses current research in applying lethal temperatures, as well as temperature synergism with other pest management techniques and the cold storage of insects used as biological control agents...read more