Pest and Vector Control
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 29 January 2004
- ISBN 9780521010832
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages362 pages
- Size 228x153x21 mm
- Weight 596 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 98 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
This short, readable 2004 textbook is designed to introduce students to the biology and techniques of agricultural pest and disease vector control.
MoreLong description:
As ravagers of crops and carriers of diseases affecting plants, humans and animals, insects present a challenge to a growing human population. In Pest and Vector Control, first published in 2004, Professors van Emden and Service describe the available options for meeting this challenge, discussing their relative advantages, disadvantages and future potential. Methods such as chemical and biological control, host tolerance and resistance are discussed integrating (often for the first time) information and experience from the agricultural and medical/veterinary fields. Chemical control is seen as a major component of insect control, both now and in the future, but this is balanced with an extensive account of associated problems, especially the development of pesticide-tolerant populations.
'[the authors] provide an extremely readable and up-to-date account of the control measures that can be used ... They provide the reader with a very objective account of the problems of bringing together different techniques of control to a package acceptable to the growers and those responsible for vector control programmes ... This book should be read by a wider audience than students of applied entomology as it shows that we still need insecticides despite the prophecies of 'Silent Spring'.' Crop Protection
Table of Contents:
Preface; 1. Man and insects; 2. The causes of pest and vectored disease outbreaks; 3. Insecticides and their formulation; 4. Application of insecticides; 5. Problems with insecticides; 6. Environmental/cultural control; 7. Biological control; 8. Insect pathogens; 9. Genetic control; 10. Pheromones; 11. Plant and host resistance; 12. Other control measures and related topics; 13. Pest and vector management; References; Appendix: names of some chemicals and microbials used as pesticides.
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