M. Gratwick

Crop Pests in the UK

Collected Edition of Maff Leaflets

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the definitive handbook on the subject of crop pests. Including 288 colour photographs, the book contains information which has been edited and updated from the series of advisory leaflets issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) which have been a widely acknowledged source of valuable information for many years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• 1992.
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1520g
• ISBN-13: 9780412462603
• ISBN-10: 0412462605
• Artikelnr.: 27652702

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Preface. Foreword. Introduction. Aphids and other plant bugs (Hemiptera). Thrips (Thysanoptera). Caterpillars (of butterflies, moths and sawflies) (Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera: Symphyta). Beetles (Coleoptera). Flies (Diptera). Wasps (Hymenoptera: Apocrita). Mites (Acari). Other arthropods (Myriapoda and Crustacea). Nematodes (Eelworms; Nematoda). Molluscs (Mollusca). Appendix A: Leaflet titles listed alphabetically. Appendix B: Leaflet titles listed alphabetically under major host crops. Index of pest and beneficial invertebrates (also diseases of pests). Index of plants. Index of plant diseases and pathogens.

Rezensionen

... this book is warmly welcomed. It puts together a comprehensive body of authoritative factual information which ... could be obtained only by extensive literary research. It will be of value to agriculturalists, conservationists, teachers, advisers, students, pest controllers and all interested in crop-pest problems - Journal of Natural History; ...The book is well produced, well illustrated and strongly bound...This is an essential handbook for all concerned with applied entomology and crop protection especially... - Entomologists Monthly Magazine