Overview
- Covers the most advanced concepts and creative ideas with regard to insect biorational control and insecticide resistance management
- Covers diverse alternative control methods against insect pests
- The authors of the various chapters have a wealth of experience and are considered world leaders specializing in novel approaches of insect pest control
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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About this book
This book covers advanced concepts and creative ideas with regard to insect biorational control and insecticide resistance management. Some chapters present and summarize general strategies or tactics for managing insect pests such as the principles of IPM in various crop systems and biorational control of insect pests, advances in organic farming, alternative strategies for controlling orchard and field-crop pests. Other chapters cover alternative methods for controlling pests such as disruption of insect reproductive systems and utilization of semiochemicals and diatomaceous earth formulations, and developing bioacoustic methodsfor mating disruption. Another part is devoted to insecticide resistance: mechanisms and novel approaches for managing insect resistance in agriculture and in public health.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Insect Control and Resistance Management
Editors: A. Rami Horowitz, Isaac Ishaaya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31800-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31798-4Published: 02 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81122-2Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31800-4Published: 26 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 339
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Entomology, Agriculture, Biotechnology, Ecology, Ecotoxicology