Handbook of Vegetable Pests
Description
Key Features
- Presents a current and comprehensive synthesis of vetted information for the support of both commercial and home vegetable production
- Includes over 300 common and occasional pest species, or species complexes, known to affect vegetables grown in the United States and Canada
- Summarizes the important findings of the last 150 years
- Provides citations to the original literature
Readership
Professionals in agriculture such as entomologists and horticulturists. These scientists often are located at universities and colleges, public and private research institutes, and government regulatory agencies. Also at these institutions are undergraduate and graduate students who aspire to work in horticultural plant production and protection, and who need comprehensive reference materials. This handbook will be particularly useful to service professionals such as county agents associated with the Cooperative Extension Service, pesticide and fertilizer providers, farm managers, and independent crop consultants
Table of Contents
1. Pest identification
2. Class Insecta
3. Order Coleoptera – Beetles, Weevils, White Grubs, Wireworms
4. Order Dermaptera – Earwigs
5. Order Diptera – Flies, Maggots
6. Order Hemiptera – Bugs, Aphids, Leaf- and Planthoppers, Psyllids, Whiteflies
7. Order Hymenoptera – Ants, Sawflies
8. Order Lepidoptera – Caterpillars, Moths, Butterflies
9. Order Orthoptera – Grasshoppers, Crickets
10. Order Thysanoptera – Thrips
11. Other Invertebrate Pests
12. Class Acari – Mites
13. Class Collembola – Springtails
14. Class Diplopoda – Millipedes
15. Class Isopoda – Pillbugs and Sowbugs
16. Class Mollusca – Slugs and Snails
17. Class Symphyla – SymphylansAppendices
Keys to selected groups of pests
Other sources of information on vegetable crops
Product details
- No. of pages: 816
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: April 23, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128144886
- eBook ISBN: 9780128144893