Author: Douglass R. Miller Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801442797 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 468
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This book provides the most comprehensive available information on the identification, field appearance, life history, and economic importance of the 110 economically important armored scale insects that are found in the US.
Author: Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0080541348 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 477
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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.
Author: David Pimentel, Ph.D. Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 9781439870587 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 984
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Author: The Xerces Society Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC ISBN: 1603427473 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 385
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With the recent decline of the European honey bee, it is more important than ever to encourage the activity of other native pollinators to keep your flowers beautiful and your grains and produce plentiful. In Attracting Native Pollinators, you’ll find ideas for building nesting structures and creating a welcoming habitat for an array of diverse pollinators that includes not only bees, but butterflies, moths, and more. Take action and protect North America’s food supply for the future, while at the same time enjoying a happily bustling landscape.
Author: Takumasa Kondo Publisher: CABI ISBN: 1800620640 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 636
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Scale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately, scale insects are highly susceptible to control by natural enemies so biological control is possible. They have unique genetic systems, unusual metamorphosis, a broad spectrum of essential symbionts, and some are sources of commercial products like red dyes, shellac and wax. There is, therefore, wide interest in these unusual, destructive, beneficial, and abundant insects. The Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests is the most comprehensive work on worldwide scale insect pests, providing detailed coverage of the most important species (230 species in 26 families, 36% of the scale insect pest species known). Advice is provided on collection, preservation, slide-mounting, vouchering, and labelling of specimens, fully illustrated with colour photographs, diagrams and drawings.
Author: G. W. Watson Publisher: UNESCO ISBN: 9789231700033 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages :
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A unique computer-based information system comprising easy-to-understand, user-friendly interactive cd-roms for specialists and the general public. Provides an important thesaurus for scientific research, monitoring studies, nature conservation and environmental projects, as well as marine and agricultural activities. It has been elaborated by specialists and co-ordinated by the Expert-Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI) of the University of Amsterdam and UNESCO. Armoured scale insects are important agricultural, horticultural and forestry pests that are difficult to identify. This CD-ROM holds an interactive identification guide and information source on economically important diaspidids of the world. It aims to enable agricultural entomologists working in agriculture, horticulture and forestry and plant quarantine inspectors to identify the most important species for themselves. The CD-ROM contains a pictorial key to adult females of 100 species in 48 genera, detailed information on their taxonomy, and information on their host-plants, biology and ecology, economic impact, natural enemies, distribution and common names. Diagnostic characters, distribution and hostplant information are provided on a further 85 similar species. This work was composed using the most recent literature from the best experts in the field and illustrations provided by numerous scientists, institutes and publishers around the world.
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