Insect pests of stored grain : biology, behavior, and management strategies /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakville, ON ; Waretown, NJ :
Apple Academic Press Inc.,
[2017]
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| Series: | Postharvest biology and technology book series.
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| 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.