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Aphids and Their Management

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This chapter summarizes IPM for greenhouse aphids on both vegetable and ornamental crops. Focus is on monitoring, sanitation, biological controls, biorational pesticides, and insect growth regulators. Supplemental tables include information on the newest biopesticides and biological control organisms.

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Reddy, P.P. (2016). Aphids and Their Management. In: Sustainable Crop Protection under Protected Cultivation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-952-3_17

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