Author: Centre for Overseas Pest Research (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural pests
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1392

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Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1352

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Author: Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262345862
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. The tsetse fly is a pan-African insect that bites an infective forest animal and ingests blood filled with invisible parasites, which it carries and transmits into cattle and people as it bites them, leading to n'gana (animal trypanosomiasis) and sleeping sickness. In The Mobile Workshop, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga examines how the presence of the tsetse fly turned the forests of Zimbabwe and southern Africa into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. He traces the pestiferous work that an indefatigable, mobile insect does through its movements, and the work done by humans to control it. Mavhunga's account restores the central role not just of African labor but of African intellect in the production of knowledge about the tsetse fly. He describes how European colonizers built on and beyond this knowledge toward destructive and toxic methods, including cutting down entire forests, forced “prophylactic” resettlement, massive destruction of wild animals, and extensive spraying of organochlorine pesticides. Throughout, Mavhunga uses African terms to describe the African experience, taking vernacular concepts as starting points in writing a narrative of ruzivo (knowledge) rather than viewing Africa through foreign keywords. The tsetse fly became a site of knowledge production—a mobile workshop of pestilence.

Author: T. R. New
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118409256
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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The third in a trilogy of global overviews of conservation of diverse and ecologically important insect groups. The first two were Beetles in Conservation (2010) and Hymenoptera and Conservation (2012). Each has different priorities and emphases that collectively summarise much of the progress and purpose of invertebrate conservation. Much of the foundation of insect conservation has been built on concerns for Lepidoptera, particularly butterflies as the most popular and best studied of all insect groups. The long-accepted worth of butterflies for conservation has led to elucidation of much of the current rationale of insect species conservation, and to definition and management of their critical resources, with attention to the intensively documented British fauna ‘leading the world’ in this endeavour. In Lepidoptera and Conservation, various themes are treated through relevant examples and case histories, and sufficient background given to enable non-specialist access. Intended for not only entomologists but conservation managers and naturalists due to its readable approach to the subject.

Author: V. Alistair Drake
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 9781845936068
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 489

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Many of the world's most serious agricultural pests are highly migratory. Through the use of special-purpose radars we are provided with insights into their movement and how they learn about and navigate through their environment. This text examines the behaviour and regional variations of these species, as well as the altitude of migration, concentration of insects in layers and how they respond to large and small-scale wind systems. The book relates radar observation of insect movement to complementary and competing methodologies and surveys its capabilities and limitations. It also deals wi

Author: V. Alistair Drake
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521440009
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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A comprehensive account of insect migration in its ecological and evolutionary context.

Author: Ian Maudlin
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 9780851990347
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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This state-of-the-art reference book includes comprehensive coverage of the biology and control of African, Asian and South American trypanosomiasis ("sleeping sickness") in man and animals. It describes recent research developments in the biology and molecular biology of trypanosomes (the protozoan parasite) and their vectors, and methods in diagnosis and control, such as trapping tsetse fly vectors. Different sections of the book are devoted to biology of trypanosomes, vector biology, epidemiology and diagnosis, pathogenesis, disease impact, chemotherapy and disease control, and vector control. The book contains contributions from leading experts from Europe, North and South America, and Africa.

Author: British Library. Document Supply Centre
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Publisher: IRRI
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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