Pest and Vector Control
- Authors:
- H. F. van Emden, University of Reading
- M. W. Service, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- Date Published: February 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521010832
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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, H.F. van Emden and Mike 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, intergrating--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 are leading authorities in their respective fields and two of the best known entomologists of their generation.
Read more- Written by two of the best known entomologists in the world
- The first textbook to bring together agricultural pest control and human disease vector control
- Written in an easy, accessible style
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"Some of [the book's] salient virtues...are brevity, authority, and price...Instructors should seriously consider this book for their introductory IPM courses. They and their students will be glad that they did." Julio S. Bernal
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- Date Published: February 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521010832
- length: 362 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.596kg
- contains: 98 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
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.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Insect and Vector Control
- Vector Control
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