Natural Enemies Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Biological Pest Control (Publication (University of California (System). Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources), 3386.) - Softcover

Flint, Mary Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520218019 ISBN 13: 9780520218017

Publisher: University of California Press, 1999

Synopsis

This book is the best-ever practical guide to the identification and biology of beneficial organisms that control pests. Growers, pest control advisers, landscape professionals, home gardeners, pest management teachers and students, and anyone fascinated by natural enemies and their prey will want this book to find, identify, and use natural enemies to control pests in almost any agricultural crop, garden, or landscape. The Natural Enemies Handbook is superbly illustrated with 180 high-quality color photographs and 140 expertly rendered drawings, showing hundreds of predators, parasites, and pathogens that attack pest insects, mites, nematodes, plant pathogens, and weeds. The handy Quick Guide allows readers to locate natural enemies that they are likely to find on almost any crop or in the garden and landscape. They can then go to the main text for clear, detailed information. Natural enemies are organisms that kill, decrease the reproductive potential, or otherwise reduce the numbers of other organisms. Biological control is the practical use of natural enemies to manage pests. Living natural enemies are the agents of biological control. Virtually every pest has natural enemies that reduce its populations under certain circumstances. The book features chapters on biological control of plant pathogens, nematodes, and weeds as well as individual chapters on parasites, predators, and pathogens of arthropods. References, suppliers, and a comprehensive index make this an indispensable source book. The up-to-date review of applied biological control literature will appeal to scholars.

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Review:

"Includes plenty of information useful to gardeners everywhere."--"Organic Gardening

Synopsis:

This practical guide covers the identification and biology of beneficial organisms that control pests. Growers, pest control advisers, landscape professionals, home gardeners, pest management teachers and students, and anyone fascinated by natural enemies and their prey should find this book useful for finding, identifying and using natural enemies to control pests in almost any agricultural crop, garden or landscape. "The Natural Enemies Handbook" is illustrated with 180 colour photographs and 140 rendered drawings, showing hundreds of predators, parasites and pathogens that attack pest insects, mites, nematodes, plant pathogens and weeds. The Quick Guide allows readers to locate natural enemies that they are likely to find on almost any crop or in the garden and landscape. They can then go to the main text for clear, detailed information. Natural enemies are organisms that kill, decrease the reproductive potential or otherwise reduce the numbers of other organisms. Biological control is the practical use of natural enemies to manage pests. Living natural enemies are the agents of biological control.

Virtually every pest has natural enemies that reduce its populations under certain circumstances. The book features chapters on biological control of plant pathogens, nematodes and weeds as well as individual chapters on parasites, predators and pathogens of arthropods. References, suppliers and a comprehensive index make this a detailed source book.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0520218019
• ISBN 13: 9780520218017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162