Product Description: A global view of the insect groups that are of major significance to worldwide agriculture in its widest sense. It is intended for use as a college text and presupposes a basic knowledge of entomology. All the main insect groups and many of the important genera are illustrated with hundreds of black-and-white photographs and line drawings...read more

Product Description: Look out! Here come the bugs that destroy. Find out about all the dangerous creepy crawlies that make life very difficult for plants and animals, including human beings, and see how they look and behave with the help of the amazing photographs and illustrations inside.

Product Description: Although focusing primarily on the sugarbeet, most of this book's step-by-step advice can be applied to other cultural types as well.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The Beet PlantPart 1: Biotic Diseases and DisordersDisease Development; Pathogens of Beet; Seedling DiseasesFoliar Diseases Caused by Fungi; Cercospora Leaf Spot; Pamularia Leaf Spot; Phoma Leaf Spot; Alternaria Leaf Spot; Rhizoctonia Foliar Blight; Beet Rust and Seedling Rust; Powdery Mildew; Downy Mildew; Beet Tumor (or Crown Wart); Miscellaneous Foliar Fungi; Root Diseases Caused by Fungi; Black Rot; Charcoal Rot; Fusarium Yellows; Phoma Root Rot; Phymatotrichum Root Rot; Phytophthora Root Rot; Pythium Root Rot; Rhizoctonia Root and Crown Rot; Rhizopus Root Rot; Southern Sclerotium Root Rot; Verticillium Wilt; Violet Root RotDiseases Caused by Bacteria and Bacteria-like Organisms; Bacterial Vascular Necrosis and Rot; Bacterial Leaf Spot; Yellow Wilt; Beet Latent Rosette; Other Bacterial DiseasesDiseases Caused by Viruses and Virus-like Entities; Beet Yellows; Beet Yellow Stunt; Beet Western Yellows; Lettuce Infectious Yellows; Beet Yellow Vein; Beet Yellow Net; Rhizomania (Beet Necrotic Yellow Vein); Cucumber Mosaic; Beet Mosaic; Beet Leaf Curl; Beet Curly Top; Beet SavoyNematode Parasites of Sugar Beet; Sugar Beet Nematode; Clover Cyst Nematode; Root-Knot Nematodes; False Root-Knot Nematodes; Stubby-Root Nematodes and Needle Nematodes; Stem and Bulb Nematode and Potato Rot Nematode; Nematodes of Lesser Importance; Storage Rot of Sugar BeetPart 2: Major Insects and ArthropodsRoot Feeders; Sugar Beet Root Maggot; Pale-Striped Flea Beetle; Wireworms; White Grubs; Sugar Beet Root Aphid; Garden Symphylan; Leaf and Crown Feeders; Sugar Beet Crown Borer; Beet Petiole Borer; Webworms; Cutworms; Armyworms; Flea Beetles; Blister Beetles; Carrion Beetles; Grasshoppers; Spinach Leaf Miner; Lygus Bugs; False Chinch Bug; Spider Mites; Aphids; Beet Leafhopper; Empoasca Leafhoppers; Sweet-Potato Whitefly; Yellow Wilt LeafhopperPart 3: Abiotic Disorders; Nutritional DisordersUniform Yellowing; Stunted Greening; Leaf Scorch; Growing-Point Damage; Yellowing with Green Veining; Herbicide Damage Leaf and Stem Abnormalities; Root Abnormalities; Herbicide Soil Residues; Other Herbicide Injuries; Minimizing Herbicide Injury; Other Disorders; Drought; Hail Damage Lightning; Wind Damage; Freezing Damage; Crusting; Soil Compaction; Salt Injury; Dodder; Rodents; Genetic DisordersDiseases Diagnosis; Key to Seedling Diseases; Key to Foliar Diseases Caused by Fungi; Key to Root Diseases Caused by Fungi; Key to Diseases Caused by Bacteria and Bacterialike Organisms; Key to Diseases Caused by Viruses and Viruslike Entities; Key to Nematode Parasites of Sugar Beet; Key to Storage Rot of Sugar Beet; Key to Major Insects and Arthropods; Key to Nutritional Disorders; Key to Herbicide Damage; Key to Other Disorders; Appendix I...read more

Full-color illustrations and photographs capture the diverse animal species that share a house with its human occupants, from aphids living among the houseplants to bats seeking shelter in the attic, accompanied by helpful advice on how to discourage unwanted creatures.

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Product Description: In the last few decades there has been an ever-increasing component in most BSc Zoology degree courses of cell biology, physiology and genetics, for spectacular developments have taken place in these fields. Some aspects of biotechnology are now also being included...read more

Product Description: This edition covers recent changes and governmental regulation in the pesticide industry and describes the current status of pest management tools and alternatives to pesticides, particularly important topics due to the growing concern for food safety.

Product Description: Completely updated in a new edition, this book remains ideal for a reader with little or no background in entomology and those who cannot spend the time to take both a general entomology course and an applied course. This combines, in a single volume, general principles of entomology and modern principles of insect pest management, including factual details and specific examples...read more

Product Description: Book by Harris, Marvin K.

Identifies the insects that harm or infect garden plants and includes pertinent details on control measures and chemicals

Provides a close-up look at grubs and other insects that cause damage to plants, including weevils, beetles, and slugs.

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Describes the appearance, life cycle, and economic importance of species of wasps, ants, cockroaches, beetles, and flies found in Britain

Introduces various kinds of insects that have wreaked havoc on humanity over the centuries, including locusts, mosquitoes, killer bees, and fruit flies

Product Description: FROM THE PREFACE: The abundance of insects can change dramatically from generation to generation; these generational changes may occur within a growing season or over a period of years. Such extraordinary density changes or "outbreaks" may be abrupt and ostensibly random, or population peaks may occur in a more or less cyclic fashion...read more

Over 350 entries describing insect pests including suggested methods of control

Over 350 entries describing insect pests including suggested methods of control

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