Insect Predators and Pest Management
by Vaishali J Patil, T V Sathe
ISBN: 9789383129973
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Imprint : DAYA
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 7495.00
Biblio : vii+216p., 14 tabls., 39 plts., 227 figs., ind., 23 cm
About The Book
Insect pest predators is major component of Integrated Pest Management programme in modern agriculture. Pesticides create many serious problems such as air, water and food pollution; health hazards, ill effects and killing of beneficial organisms; pest resistance, pest resurgence, secondary pest outbreak, interruption in ecocycles, etc. Therefore, in the present text, very relevant information is given on the insect predators such as praying mantids, tiger beetles and Lady bird beetles on taxono
Table of Contents
Contents Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Rearing of Predators, Chapter 3: Survey and Surveillance, Chapter 4: Habitat Identification, Chapter 5: Taxonomy; Coccinelids, Tiger beetles, Praying mantids, Chapter 6: Biology of Predators, Chapter 7: Pest Predator Index.
