Pest and vector control

Pest and vector control / H.F. van Emden and M.W. Service.

This short, readable textbook is designed to introduce students to the biology and techniques of agricultural pest and disease vector control. As such, it is unique; no other book attempts to marry together the fields of agricultural pest and disease vector control.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Emden, H. F. (Helmut Fritz)
Other Authors: Service, M. W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Pests > Control.
Pests > Biological control.
Vector control.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects.
pest control.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects
Pests > Biological control
Pests > Control
Vector control
Bekämpfung
Insektenbekämpfung
Landwirtschaft
Schadinsekten
Schädlingsbekämpfung
Vektor > Epidemiologie
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; 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 methods and related topics; 13 Pest and vector management; Appendix of names of some chemicals and microbials used as pesticides; References; Index.

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