Handbook of Vegetable Pests
eBook - ePub

Handbook of Vegetable Pests

  1. 800 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Handbook of Vegetable Pests

About this book

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 exactly which pests are afflicting crops. The Handbook of Vegetable Pests is intended to assist anyone in need of an easy-to-use, and yet comprehensive, survey of all pests likely to be encountered in North America. This Handbook provides thorough identification guides, descriptions of pest life history, and pest management recommendations. The text is well illustrated with hundreds of easy-to-use line drawings, is cross-referenced to the professional and scientific literature, and includes color plates for ease of insect pest identification. Every gardener, horticulturalist, farm manager, and plant science professional should have this Handbook as a ready desk reference.Key Features* Identification guides list the major and minor pests of each crop family and provide distinguishing characteristics for each pest * Includes pest profiles that describe the appearance, life history, and management of various pests * Over 600 black and white line drawings and over 100 color images to further aid in identification* Detailed glossary provided to help with the definition of some of the less known terms

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1: Introduction
  9. Chapter 2: Pest Identification
  10. Chapter 3: Guides to Pests Arranged by Vegetable Crops
  11. Chapter 4: Class Insecta—Insects: Order Coleoptera—Beetles, Weevils, White Grubs and Wireworms
  12. Chapter 5: Order Dermaptera—Earwigs
  13. Chapter 6: Order Diptera—Flies and Maggots
  14. Chapter 7: Order Hemiptera—Bugs
  15. Chapter 8: Order Homoptera—Aphids, Leaf- and Planthoppers, Psyllids and Whiteflies
  16. Chapter 9: Order Hymenoptera—Ants and Sawflies
  17. Chapter 10: Order Lepidoptera—Caterpillars, Moths and Butterflies
  18. Chapter 11: Order Orthoptera—Grasshoppers and Crickets
  19. Chapter 12: Order Thysanoptera—Thrips
  20. Chapter 13: Other Invertebrate Pests
  21. Appendix A: Other Aids for Pest Identification
  22. Appendix B: Other Sources of Information about Vegetable Crop Pests
  23. Appendix C: Vegetable Plant Names
  24. Appendix D: Journal Abbreviations and Journal Titles
  25. Glossary
  26. References
  27. Index
  28. Color Figures