Handbook of vegetable pests /

Garden pests plague everyone who has ever raised vegetables, from backyard gardener to professional horticulturists, farm managers, and agrobusiness professionals. The economic impacts of vegetable pests are enormous. To manage and minimize the adverse impacts of pests, it is important to identify e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Capinera, John L.
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, ©2001.
Subjects:	Vegetables > Diseases and pests > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Insect pests > Identification. Légumes > Maladies et fléaux > Guides, manuels, etc. Insectes nuisibles > Identification. GARDENING > Essays. GARDENING > Reference. GARDENING > Vegetables. SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Horticulture. Insect pests > Identification Insect pests Vegetables > Diseases and pests groenten vegetables insectenplagen insect pests mijten mites identificatie identification waardplanten host plants plagenbestrijding pest control handboeken handbooks Agricultural Entomology and Acarology (General) Landbouwkundige entomologie en acaralogie (algemeen) Electronic books. field guides. handbooks. manuals (instructional materials) Field guides Handbooks and manuals Field guides. Handbooks and manuals. Guides d'identification. Guides et manuels.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction. North American vegetable crops ; Insects and insect relatives ; Pest management philosophy and practices
Pest identification. General considerations ; Why identification is so important? ; Approaches to identification
Guide to pests arranged by vegetable crops
Class Insecta : insects. Order Coleoptera : beetles, weevils, white grubs and wireworms
Order Dermaptera : earwigs
Order Diptera : flies and maggots
Order Hemiptera : bugs
Order Homoptera : aphids, leaf- and planthoppers, psyllids and whiteflies
Order Hymenoptera : ants and sawflies
Order Lepidoptera : caterpillars, moths and butterflies
Order Orthoptera : grasshoppers and crickets
Order Thysanoptera : thrips
Other invertebrate pests
Appendix A. Other aids for pest identification
Appendix B. Other sources of information about vegetable crop pests
Appendix C. Vegetable plant names
Appendix D. Journal abbreviations and journal titles.