Over 350 entries describing insect pests including suggested methods of control

Over 350 entries describing insect pests including suggested methods of control

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

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

Product Description: The study of insects present in the urban environment is an increasingly important field of entomology. Urban Entomology is the first work devoted to this topic.

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

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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

Discusses the influence of insects on humankind, describes insect characteristics and behavior, and tells how to collect and identify insects

Product Description: Book by Harris, Marvin K.

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Product Description: Volume 5 of "Insect-Plant Interactions" is a volume in a series that presents research in the field. Topics covered include chemical changes in plants as a result of insects feeding on their leaves, dynamic elements of the use and avoidance of host plants by tephritid flies as a result of the presence of other flies, floral volatiles in insect biology, endophytic fungi as mediators of plant insect interactions, the cost of chemical defence against herbivory, and life history traits on insect herbivores in relation to host quality...read more

Product Description: This book gives a popularized account of entomology and working in entomology in the USA. The 7 chapters by various authors cover: useful insects such as bees, insects that help control pests, insects as medicine and as food; insects and public health, including mosquitoes, the diseases they carry and their control, an account of the work of medical entomologists in the armed forces of the USA, memories of working on the development of early insect repellents, on control of screwworm and the role of dipteran larvae in forensic entomology; forest pests and their control, in particular the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar); domestic insects and their control, work on termites [Isoptera] and other pests of timber, an account of the problems of imported fireants (Solenopsis spp...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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

An entomologist explains the jobs and dangers of every crawling, flying, and leaping insect. Read by Scott Brick.

Product Description: An understanding of the dynamics of populations is critically important to ecologists, evolutionary biologists, wildlife managers, foresters, and many other biologists. This edited treatise brings together the latest research on how populations fluctuate in size, the factors that drive these changes, and the theories explaining how populations are regulated...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.