1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457573003321

Autore

Van Emden Helmut Fritz

Titolo

Pest and vector control / / H.F. van Emden and M.W. Service [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14439-6

1-280-95607-0

9786610956074

0-511-35158-5

0-511-16590-0

0-511-16395-9

0-511-56158-X

0-511-61633-3

0-511-16475-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

632/.7

Soggetti

Pests - Control

Pests - Biological control

Vector control

Pesticides - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-327) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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, first published in 2004,



Professors van Emden and 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 integrating (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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910998094703321

Titolo

Insects of Hawaii : a manual of the insects of the Hawaiian Islands, including an enumeration of the species and notes on their origin, distribution, hosts, parasites etc. : 9 Microlepidoptera, Part II : Gelechioidea / Elwood C. Zimmerman, Elmo Hardy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Honolulu, : University of Hawaii, 1948-1965

Descrizione fisica

883 - 1903 p ; 26 cm

Disciplina

595.7

Locazione

FAGBC

Collocazione

B ENT 434

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia