Cool Springs Press, 2021. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-0760370063. In The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, you'll find the simple, straightforward resources and tools you need to identify common pests of edible gardens and manage them without the use of synthetic chemical pesticides. Climate change and newly introduced insect pests are changing the world of gardening. Pests that once...
2nd Edition. — CABI, 2000. — xiv + 410 p. — ISBN: 0-85199-340-0. The first edition of this book, published in 1991, was well-received as an upper-level undergraduate textbook for courses in agricultural entomology and pest management. Since the publication of the first edition, many new advances have taken place in the subject, and these have been incorporated into the new...
Publishing House I.Ivanchenko. — 140 p. — ISBN: 978-617-7879-04-5. The species composition of spring rape and mustard pests in the Eastern Forest-Steppe of Ukraine is specified. For the first time the seasonal dynamics in the number of cruciferous fleas, bugs and rape blossom beetle on the spring rape and mustard crops was determined in the Eastern Forest-Steppe of Ukraine; the...
Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Entomology. — Massey University, 2016. — 166 p. The Mediterranean flour moth, Ephestia kuehniella is a cosmopolitan pest of stored products that now has wide distribution in flour/feed mills in New Zealand. Understanding how individual behaviour and life‐history strategies evolve in response to environmental...
Cambridge: CABI Publishing, 2003. — 257 p. — ISBN: 0-85199-590-X. Greenhouses, Plants & Mites Greenhouses Plants grown in greenhouses Mites in greenhouses Recommended further reading References cited Introduction to Acari General introduction Morphology and structure Division of body Gnathosoma. Idiosoma Legs Classification Higher classification Order Prostigmata. Order...
Springer, 2019. — 388 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-05164-8. Evolution gave rise to a prominent insect diversity at every level of ecological niche. Since then, hordes of insects have threatened human and cattle health as well as most of all green lands and agricultural crops. Now, the insect problem expands from many mutant forms of yellow dengue fever mosquitoes to highly-resistant...
Springer, 2019. — 253 p. — ISBN: 3030050599. Evolution gave rise to a prominent insect diversity at every level of ecological niche. Since then, hordes of insects have threatened human and cattle health as well as most of all green lands and agricultural crops. Now, the insect problem expands from many mutant forms of yellow dengue fever mosquitoes to highly-resistant larvae of...
CRC Press, 2016. — 282 p. — ISBN: 9781482236781, 1482236788. Research in the area of community genetics has been generating substantial evidence from many different plant-based systems to show that within-species plant genetic variation can have strong and wide-ranging effects on associated communities living on or in the plant, such as herbivores, parasites or mutualists. The...
Academic Press, 2016. — 762 p. — ISBN: 0128032650, 9780128032657. Ecofriendly Pest Management for Food Security explores the broad range of opportunity and challenges afforded by Integrated Pest Management systems. The book focuses on the insect resistance that has developed as a result of pest control chemicals, and how new methods of environmentally complementary pest control...
Journal of Central European Agriculture. — 2015. — 16 (3) — p.330-343. It was evaluated the damage caused by Bruchus pisorum L (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) on the germination ability of pea farage varieties (Pisum sativum L.). Result of damage by Bruchus pisorum in seeds with parasitized larva was significant decrease of the germination by 16.4% percentage points, the length and...
Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research. — 2015. — Volume 54, Issue 1 — pp. 41-47. Trials were conducted in 2011 and 2012 at the Institute of Forage Crops, Pleven, Bulgaria, in order to study the imaginal and possible ovicidal effect of some insecticides against Bruchus pisorum under field conditions. Treatments with insecticides were started after the appearance of the...
New Zealand Entomologist. — 1989. — Vol. 12 — pp. 81-83. Pea weevil (Bruchus pisorum) is an important potential pest of peas grown in New Zealand and imports containing the pest must be intercepted. Detecting immature stages inside dried peas is difficult. However soaking peas in water allows them to swell and soften, and facilitates cutting and checking peas internally for...
Plant Protection Science. — 2011. — Vol 47, No 3 — pp. 109–114. The effects of two pyrethroid (lambda-cyhalothrin, alpha-cypermethrin) and two neonicotinoid (acetamiprid, thiacloprid) insecticides on B. pisorum L. eggs were compared under field conditions in the Czech Republic in 2005–2007. The main objective of the study was to find out what real effects can be expected from...
Elsevier Science B.V., 1997. — 442 p. — (World Crop Pests; Volume 7, Part B). — ISBN 0-444-82843-5. This text presents an up-to-date account of the soft-scale insects, "Coccidae", and covers almost the entire spectrum of the knowledge of this insect family. It is divided into three sections, covering: soft scale insects; their natural enemies; and damage and control. The...
Springer, 2010. — 307 p. — ISBN: 978-90-481-9562-6 This collection of 14 papers comprises primary research articles and literature reviews, presenting a broad overview of the developments in about all possible aspects of members of the plant parasitic superfamily Eriophyoidea. It deals with their DNA, species interactions, quarantine importance, host specificity, potential as...
Elsevier Science, 1996. — 790 p. — (World Crop Pests; Volume 6). — ISBN: 978-0-08-053123-6. This book is a timely compilation of synthesized information on behaviourally fascinating and economically important mites. The book gives much attention to fundamental aspects of eriophyoid anatomy, behaviour, ecology and even systematics, as bases for understanding the ways of life of...
Manson Publishing, 2007. — 480 p. — (Series: Plant Protection Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-1-84076-051-4. Building on the author's highly regarded Color Atlas of Fruit Pests, this new book gives a systematic account of fruit and hop pests - their recognition, biology and status. The scope of the original book has been greatly expanded to cover pests of fruit crops in temperate and...
Academic Press, 2013. — 614 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-386895-4. Insect Pests of Potato: Biology and Management provides a comprehensive source of up-to-date scientific information on the biology and management of insects attacking potato crops, with an international and expert cast of contributors providing its contents. This book presents a complete review of the scientific...
CSIRO Publishing, 2007. — 520 p. — ISBN 9780643067585. This book aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of the main pest and beneficial species of insects and allied forms in the main field crops and pastures presently grown in Australia. This book aims to present the best available knowledge on the identification, biology and management of crop and pasture pest and...
CABI Publishing, 2002. — 468 p. ISBN: 0-85199-320-6. Mollusc species currently constitute a major threat to sustainable agriculture. This threat is associated with cultivation of new crops, intensification of agricultural production systems and the spread through human trade and travel of species adapted to these modified environments. In some crops, their significance is only...