The public has a great desire for products that prevent the annoyance of biting insects and ticks, but that desire does not always translate into sensible use of those products.
Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals is an updated account of the different strategies for assessing the ecotoxicity of xenobiotics against these social insects, which play a key role in both ecology and agriculture.
Pests of Fruit Crops: A Colour Handbook, Second Edition provides an up-to-date illustrated account of the various pests of fruit crops throughout Europe, many of which (or their close relatives) are also present in non-European countries.
The genus Cordyceps and allied species, such as entomopathogenic fungi, mainly parasitize insects and other arthropods and have been known since ancient times.
For large-scale agroecosystems, patterns of pest population increases (graded increases or abrupt outbreaks) and declines (graded suppression or abrupt crashes) vary considerably and are influenced by factors within crop fields and across broader landscape scales.
This new innovative work on insects and their impact on the ecosystem covers the role of insects in environmental pollution, their use in sustainable agricultural services, and the industrial, forensic, and medical applications of insects and their pure products.
Skill Development and Start-Ups in Entomology provides information on all the possible entrepreneurial avenues that would cater to the needs of educated but unemployed entomologists.
An encounter with a spider will never be the same again This warm-hearted book offers fascinating science and captivating storytelling to persuade readers to fall in love withor at least toleratethese eight-legged wonders.
Skill Development and Start-Ups in Entomology provides information on all the possible entrepreneurial avenues that would cater to the needs of educated but unemployed entomologists.
Discover the trailblazing work of artist naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian in this beautifully illustrated volume on the life cycle of butterflies and moths.
Winner of the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThis handbook presents a comprehensive overview of insect conservation and provides practical solutions to counteract insect declines, at a time where insects are facing serious threats across the world from habitat destruction to invasive species and climate change.
Winner of the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThis handbook presents a comprehensive overview of insect conservation and provides practical solutions to counteract insect declines, at a time where insects are facing serious threats across the world from habitat destruction to invasive species and climate change.
This revised and updated edition of Ladybirds provides a succinct but comprehensive and accessible overview of the biology of ladybirds and their parasites, focusing on ecology in an evolutionary context.
Ecostacking is a new concept and approach which aims to maximize the benefits of ecosystem service providers in cropping systems to help achieve the goal of long-term sustainable agriculture and food production.
Earthworm Ecology, Second Edition updates the most comprehensive work available on earthworm ecology with extensive revisions of the original chapters.
A CHOICE Recommended title 2025This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, methods and applications of chemical ecology, covering such topics as chemical signalling, predator-prey interactions, host plant selection and chemical defence.
Packed with stunning, detailed illustrations and astonishing facts, this book will introduce you to some of the strangest, scariest, biggest, smallest and most beautiful insects around.
Parasitoid wasps are cosmopolitan, numerous and enormously diverse with probably one million or more species worldwide, most of which occur in the moist tropics.
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world's beetlesPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover.
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world's beetlesPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover.
Professor van den Bosch of the University of California was one of the developers of Integrated Pest Management-the use of biological controls, improved pest knowledge and observation, and judicious application of chemicals only when absolutely necessary.
The Fourth Edition of The Light and Smith Manual continues a sixty-five-year tradition of providing to both students and professionals an indispensable, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to Pacific coast marine invertebrates of coastal waters, rocky shores, sandy beaches, tidal mud flats, salt marshes, and floats and docks.
Professor van den Bosch of the University of California was one of the developers of Integrated Pest Management-the use of biological controls, improved pest knowledge and observation, and judicious application of chemicals only when absolutely necessary.
The Fourth Edition of The Light and Smith Manual continues a sixty-five-year tradition of providing to both students and professionals an indispensable, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to Pacific coast marine invertebrates of coastal waters, rocky shores, sandy beaches, tidal mud flats, salt marshes, and floats and docks.
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world's spidersPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover.
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world's butterfliesPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover.
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world's spidersPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover.
Longhorn beetles - Cerambycidae - are one of the most easily recognised groups of beetles, a cosmopolitan family that encompasses more than 33,000 species in 5,200 genera worldwide.
Discover the pleasures of watching insects with this fun, informative, and marvelously illustrated how-to guideInsects are the most abundant wildlife on the planetbut also the least observed.
Since the second half of the 20th Century, our agricultural bee pollinators have faced mounting threats from ecological disturbance and pan-global movement of pathogens and parasites.
Considered as economically significant pests with worldwide distribution, aphids feed on hundreds of cultivated and ornamental plants and cause considerable economic loss on a global scale.
Considered as economically significant pests with worldwide distribution, aphids feed on hundreds of cultivated and ornamental plants and cause considerable economic loss on a global scale.
