Pest control / plant diseases

A companion to 'Urban Pest Management', this book builds on the issues of insect pests in urban settings to discuss control strategies that look beyond products.

Numerous applications for biocides have been found in fields as diverse as ethical pharmaceuticals and cat litter products.

Australia’s introduced vertebrate pest species cost at least $1 billion annually in economic, environmental and social impacts.

Integrated Pest Management: Current Concepts and Ecological Perspective presents an overview of alternative measures to traditional pest management practices using biological control and biotechnology.

An undergraduate and postgraduate textbook covering the key principles, methodologies, approaches and practical examples of insect pest management in agricultural, post harvest systems, horticulture, insect vectors and medical and veterinary entomology.

Cricket song is a sound of the Australian bush.

This comprehensive guide to wetland weeds covers both native and introduced species, ranging from minor or localised environmental problems to those that should not be tolerated in any situation.

Effective management of pests and diseases is crucial for the successful and profitable cultivation of crops.

Plant-parasitic nematodes are one of multiple causes of soil-related sub-optimal crop performance.

This book provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the research and application of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in tropical regions.

Alternative methods of disease control such as natural products and compounds derived from biological origins, provide an effective alternate to the use of chemical products or a means to minimize their use.

Canada is a world leader in biological control research.

Organic agriculture practices limit the options available for pest control, relying on cultural and physical methods as well as biological control.

This comprehensive handbook on economic entomology for Australian field crops and pastures is the first of its kind.

This book is a compendium of current information on all aspects of these economically important parasites.

This book comprehensively reviews current pest management practices and explores novel integrated pest management strategies in Brassica oilseed crops.

Insect infestations in grains and other stored food and fibre products cause annual losses worth many millions of dollars worldwide.

An updated guide to plant pathogens and their management The impact of plant disease is far-reaching.

For many years the use of chemical agents such as pesticides and herbicides has been effective in controlling the many varieties of pests that infest both agricultural crops and backyard gardens.

Invasive species are among the greatest challenges to environmental sustainability and agricultural productivity in the world.

Invasive arthropods cause significant damage in agricultural crops and natural environments across the globe.

Recommended in CHOICE, February 2021Insects are all around us, outweighing humanity by 17 times.

Handbook of Major Palm Pests: Biology and Management contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the red palm weevil and the palm borer moth, two newly emergent invasive palm pests which are adversely affecting palm trees around the world.

Barley is one of the world's most important crops with uses ranging from food and feed production, malting and brewing to its use as a model organism in molecular research.

Insect Pests of Millets: Systematics, Bionomics, and Management focuses on protecting the cultivated cereals that many worldwide populations depend on for food across the semi-arid tropics of the world.

The control of illicit-drug trafficking and drug use is a difficult and complex process that involves a variety of prevention, control, treatment, and law enforcement strategies.

Coccidiosis is one of the most important diseases of livestock, particularly poultry, with billions of dollars spent on prevention worldwide.

Design, Operation, and Control of Insect-Rearing Systems: Science, Technology, and Infrastructure explains the fundamental components of insect rearing:1) the rearing systems, per se2) personnel3) education of rearing personnel4) communication of procedures5) an in-depth look at silkworm rearing5) facilities where rearing is conducted, and6) funding for all these components.

Diseases of Fruit Crops in Australia is the new standard reference in applied plant pathology in Australia covering important diseases affecting the broad range of fruit and nut crops grown throughout Australia.

This book enhances our understanding of biological control, integrating historical analysis, theoretical models and case studies in an ecological framework.

This book is the first resource to review the influence of climate change on urban and public pests such as mosquitoes, flies, ticks, and wood pests, with respect to population, distribution, disease, damage and control.

Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests.

Despite a history of several decades of pesticide regulation, continuous innovation, and considerable practical experience with using pesticides in agriculture, the environmental impact of pesticide use continues to be of serious concern.

This book enhances our understanding of biological control, integrating historical analysis, theoretical models and case studies in an ecological framework.

The field of Phytobacteriology is rapidly advancing and changing, because of recent advances in genomics and molecular plant pathology, but also due to the global spread of bacterial plant diseases and the emergence of new bacterial diseases.

Sheep and goats are farmed throughout the world for meat, fibre, milk and leather.

RHS Can Anything Stop Slugs assists with all of the most common problems encountered in a garden - as well as some slightly more unusual ones.

In 1998, the Southern Saltmarsh Mosquito Aedes camptorhynchus (‘Campto’) was accidentally transported from Australia to Hawke’s Bay in New Zealand, from where it dispersed to another 10 localities mainly on the North Island.

Despite the research effort put into controlling pathogens, pests and parasitic plants, crop losses are still a regular feature of agriculture worldwide.

PESTICIDE APPLICATION METHODS Pesticide Application Methods is the standard work for all those involved in crop protection.

Aphids are among the major global pest groups, causing serious economic damage to many food and commodity crops in most parts of the world.

Farm dams, creeklines, vegetation and rocky outcrops are natural assets that are essential for healthy, sustainable farms.

This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations.

Diseases of Fruits and Vegetable Crops: Recent Management Approaches covers certain basic aspects of knowledge on diagnostic symptoms, modes of perpetuation and dissemination of pathogens, favorable conditions for disease development, and the latest management strategies for disease prevention and mitigation in vegetable crops, fruit crops, and plantation crops.

';We are being poisoned, and this book is sounding a well-informed alarm.

Plant Pathology is a valuable, much-needed resource in plant pathological science.

Pesticide Application Methods is the standard work for all those involved in crop protection.

Coccidiosis is one of the most important diseases of livestock, particularly poultry, with billions of dollars spent on prevention worldwide.

Biopesticide: Volume Two, the latest release in the Advances in Bioinoculant series, provides an updated overview on the active substances utilized in current bioinsecticides, along with information on which of them can be used for integrated pest management programs in agro-ecosystems.