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Handbook of vegetable pests /
Garden pests plague everyone who has ever raised vegetables, from backyard gardener to professional horticulturists, farm managers, and agrobusiness professionals. The economic impacts of vegetable pests are enormous. To manage and minimize the adverse impacts of pests, it is important to identify e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego, Calif. :
Academic Press,
�2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. North American vegetable crops ; Insects and insect relatives ; Pest management philosophy and practices
- Pest identification. General considerations ; Why identification is so important? ; Approaches to identification
- Guide to pests arranged by vegetable crops
- Class Insecta : insects. Order Coleoptera : beetles, weevils, white grubs and wireworms
- Order Dermaptera : earwigs
- Order Diptera : flies and maggots
- Order Hemiptera : bugs
- Order Homoptera : aphids, leaf- and planthoppers, psyllids and whiteflies
- Order Hymenoptera : ants and sawflies
- Order Lepidoptera : caterpillars, moths and butterflies
- Order Orthoptera : grasshoppers and crickets
- Order Thysanoptera : thrips
- Other invertebrate pests
- Appendix A. Other aids for pest identification
- Appendix B. Other sources of information about vegetable crop pests
- Appendix C. Vegetable plant names
- Appendix D. Journal abbreviations and journal titles.