Natural Crop Protection in the Tropics: Letting Information Come to Life
This book is a valuable reference to turfgrass consultants and representatives of a variety of agribusinesses that serve the turfgrass industry. It contains both the technical and...
Fruit crops; Field crops; Greenhouse crops; Insect-host plant relations; Host-plant resistance; Pheromones and attractants; Selective insecticides; Insect hormones; Micro-organisms, viruses and nematodes; Supporting techniques.
Pesticide Application Methods
Origins of pest control formulations and application machines. Plant protection pesticides and application equipment. Liquid atomizers: design, theory, and use. Spray application machines. Spray applications to orchards and vines. Pesticide...
Baculoviruses for Insect Pest Control: Safety Considerations : Selected Papers from EPA-USDA Working Symposium, Bethesda, Maryland
The nature and scope of biological control; Ecological basis for biological control; The history and development of biological control; Entomophagous insects; Procedures in enemy introduction; Factors limiting success of introduced...
Integrated pest management: addressing the economic and environmental issues of contemporaru agriculture; Integrated pest management in the corn/soybean agroecossystem; Biologically intensive integrated pest management: future choices for cotton; Biologically intensive...
Previously, the development of new agrochemicals has begun on the chemist's bench, screened via bioassays, and brought to the marketplace following field trials. Since the evolution of molecular, combinatorial and...
General diseases and pests of several crops and their control. Diseases and pests of fruit crops and their control. Banana and plantain.Citrus. Diseases and pests of luxury crops and their...
Roberts offers gardeners alternatives to the use of poisons in controlling insects. He discusses biological insect control (using beneficial insects to kill destructive ones), cultural insect control (rotating crops every...
In What's Buggin' You?, author Michael Bohdan (aka "Cockroach Dundee")--pest control operator and world famous curator of the Cockroach Hall of Fame--shows you how to identify and control the pests...
Getting Pests to Bug Off