Author: M. J. Pearce
Publisher: CAB International
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This text provides a scientific introduction to termites, including their behaviour, pest status and control.
Termites
Author: M. J. Pearce
Publisher: CAB International
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This text provides a scientific introduction to termites, including their behaviour, pest status and control.
Publisher: CAB International
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This text provides a scientific introduction to termites, including their behaviour, pest status and control.
Thrips Biology and Management
Author: Bruce L. Parker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489914099
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Thrips (fhysanoptera) are very small insects, widespread throughout the world with a preponderance of tropical species, many temperate ones, and even a few living in arctic regions. Of the approximately 5,000 species so far identified, only a few hundred are crop pests, causing serious damage or transmitting diseases to growing crops and harvestable produce in most countries. Their fringed wings confer a natural ability to disperse widely, blown by the wind. Their minute size and cryptic behavior make them difficult to detect either in the field or in fresh vegetation transported during international trade of vegetables, fruit and ornamental flowers. Many species have now spread from their original natural habitats and hosts to favorable new environments where they often reproduce rapidly to develop intense damaging infestations that are costly to control. Over the past decade there have been several spectacular examples of this. The western flower thrips has expanded its range from the North American continent to Europe, Australia and South Africa. Thrips palmi has spread from its presumed origin, the island of Sumatra, to the coast of Florida, and threatens to extend its distribution throughout North and South America. Pear thrips, a known orchard pest of Europe and the western United States and Canada has recently become a major defoliator of hardwood trees in Vermont and the neighboring states. Local outbreaks of other species are also becoming problems in field and glasshouse crops as the effectiveness of insecticides against them decline.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489914099
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Thrips (fhysanoptera) are very small insects, widespread throughout the world with a preponderance of tropical species, many temperate ones, and even a few living in arctic regions. Of the approximately 5,000 species so far identified, only a few hundred are crop pests, causing serious damage or transmitting diseases to growing crops and harvestable produce in most countries. Their fringed wings confer a natural ability to disperse widely, blown by the wind. Their minute size and cryptic behavior make them difficult to detect either in the field or in fresh vegetation transported during international trade of vegetables, fruit and ornamental flowers. Many species have now spread from their original natural habitats and hosts to favorable new environments where they often reproduce rapidly to develop intense damaging infestations that are costly to control. Over the past decade there have been several spectacular examples of this. The western flower thrips has expanded its range from the North American continent to Europe, Australia and South Africa. Thrips palmi has spread from its presumed origin, the island of Sumatra, to the coast of Florida, and threatens to extend its distribution throughout North and South America. Pear thrips, a known orchard pest of Europe and the western United States and Canada has recently become a major defoliator of hardwood trees in Vermont and the neighboring states. Local outbreaks of other species are also becoming problems in field and glasshouse crops as the effectiveness of insecticides against them decline.
Thrips as Crop Pests
Author: Trevor Lewis
Publisher: Cabi
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
A comprehensive treatise on thrips as crop pests set against a background covering basic biology, ecology, applied science and pest control.
Publisher: Cabi
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
A comprehensive treatise on thrips as crop pests set against a background covering basic biology, ecology, applied science and pest control.
Thrips
Author: William D. J. Kirk
Publisher: Naturalists' Handbooks
ISBN: 9780855463083
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Thrips remain a mysterious group of insects because up to now they have been studied by only a few specialists. A factor limiting their appeal has been the problem of identification. Some species are genuinely difficult to separate, but others can be named fairly easily and some can even be recognised alive in the field. The keys in this book have been designed to enable anyone with access to a good microscope to overcome the taxonomic hurdle in order to explore the unusual natural history and behaviour of thrips.
Publisher: Naturalists' Handbooks
ISBN: 9780855463083
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Thrips remain a mysterious group of insects because up to now they have been studied by only a few specialists. A factor limiting their appeal has been the problem of identification. Some species are genuinely difficult to separate, but others can be named fairly easily and some can even be recognised alive in the field. The keys in this book have been designed to enable anyone with access to a good microscope to overcome the taxonomic hurdle in order to explore the unusual natural history and behaviour of thrips.
Comparative Social Evolution
Author: Dustin R. Rubenstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108132634
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology. Providing a unique perspective on the study of social evolution, this volume synthesizes the features of animal social life across the principle taxonomic groups in which sociality has evolved. The chapters explore sociality in a range of species, from ants to primates, highlighting key natural and life history data and providing a comparative view across animal societies. In establishing a single framework for a common, trait-based approach towards social synthesis, this volume will enable graduate students and investigators new to the field to systematically compare taxonomic groups and reinvigorate comparative approaches to studying animal social evolution.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108132634
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology. Providing a unique perspective on the study of social evolution, this volume synthesizes the features of animal social life across the principle taxonomic groups in which sociality has evolved. The chapters explore sociality in a range of species, from ants to primates, highlighting key natural and life history data and providing a comparative view across animal societies. In establishing a single framework for a common, trait-based approach towards social synthesis, this volume will enable graduate students and investigators new to the field to systematically compare taxonomic groups and reinvigorate comparative approaches to studying animal social evolution.
Biology of Rice
Author: S. Tsunoda
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0444598480
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book presents a wealth of both general and specific information about rice. The first section outlines the distribution and mutual relationships of various types of rice with special attention to the adaptive strategy of wild and cultivated rice, and to the relationships between different ecotypes and their adaptation to low temperature, different photoperiods or different humidities. The section on rice morpho-physiology compares the characteristics of rice and dry land crops and different ecotypes with regard to seed dormancy and germination; describes the important steps in the photosynthetic structure process and its adjustment to the course of evolution of cultivated rice; studies the root and nutrient uptake and the responses to hormones in terrestrial and aquatic plants; considers the reproductive nature in relation to tolerance to environmental stress; and discusses the morphological characteristics of rice panicle in relation to grain filling, sink-source balance and variation in yield components of panicle structure. The last section reviews the genetics of rice and includes new findings on chromosomal analysis, cytoplasmic analysis and gene analysis and reviews recent achievements in tissue culture and genetic engineering techniques.The book is authoritative, well-documented and international in scope. It presents new and useful information of direct use to rice research workers and students, and of interest to crop physiologists, agronomists, plant physiologists and breeders throughout the world.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0444598480
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book presents a wealth of both general and specific information about rice. The first section outlines the distribution and mutual relationships of various types of rice with special attention to the adaptive strategy of wild and cultivated rice, and to the relationships between different ecotypes and their adaptation to low temperature, different photoperiods or different humidities. The section on rice morpho-physiology compares the characteristics of rice and dry land crops and different ecotypes with regard to seed dormancy and germination; describes the important steps in the photosynthetic structure process and its adjustment to the course of evolution of cultivated rice; studies the root and nutrient uptake and the responses to hormones in terrestrial and aquatic plants; considers the reproductive nature in relation to tolerance to environmental stress; and discusses the morphological characteristics of rice panicle in relation to grain filling, sink-source balance and variation in yield components of panicle structure. The last section reviews the genetics of rice and includes new findings on chromosomal analysis, cytoplasmic analysis and gene analysis and reviews recent achievements in tissue culture and genetic engineering techniques.The book is authoritative, well-documented and international in scope. It presents new and useful information of direct use to rice research workers and students, and of interest to crop physiologists, agronomists, plant physiologists and breeders throughout the world.
Insect Pests of Cotton
Author: G. A. Matthews
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The cotton plant; Insects and mites; Pest management.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The cotton plant; Insects and mites; Pest management.
Plant Responses to Phytophagous Mites/Thrips and Search for Resistance
Author: Raul A. Sperotto
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889630773
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889630773
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Official Gazette
Author: Philippines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook
Author: Susan Mulvihill
Publisher:
ISBN: 0760370060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Identify and control dozens of common vegetable garden pests quickly and organically with the pest profiles and expert advice found in The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0760370060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Identify and control dozens of common vegetable garden pests quickly and organically with the pest profiles and expert advice found in The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook.