Insect pests of stored grain : biology, behavior, and management strategies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kumar, Ranjeet, 1982- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakville, ON ; Waretown, NJ : Apple Academic Press Inc., [2017]
Series:Postharvest biology and technology book series.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to storage entomology
  • History of grain or seed storage
  • Classification and identification of important stored grain/seed insects
  • Important stored grain and seed insect pests
  • Detection of infestation in stored product
  • Estimation of losses due to insects in stored products
  • Sources and kind of infestation
  • Factors affecting infestation of storage insects
  • Methods of storage and different storage structures
  • Behavioral management of storage insects
  • Management of stored grain and seed insects by plant products
  • Integrated management of storage insects
  • Fumigation of stored products
  • Important mites associated with stored produce and their management
  • Important birds associated with stored grain and their management
  • Important rodents in warehouse or godown and their management
  • Important storage fungi and their management
  • Stored grain insects of quarantine importance.