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Diseases transmitted by insects continue to have a major impact on
human populations. Malaria, dengue, onchocerciasis, sleeping
sickness and leishmaniasis all adversely affect man. Malaria is one
of the most important causes of child mortality and reduces
economic development in many countries, with agricultural
productivity often greatly reduced, as many vectors are active in
the wet season favourable for crop production. Vector control is
crucial to reduce the extent to which drugs are needed to treat the
diseases, as the parasite can become resistant, or the drugs are
often too expensive for those living in rural areas and urban slums
most affected by these diseases.
Chemical control of vectors is often the only method that can
reduce vector populations in a disease epidemic, but with vectors
developing resistance to insecticides, there is increasing
awareness that a single control method is often insufficient and
also that chemical control must be integrated where possible with
other control measures.
In "Integrated Vector Management," Graham Matthews covers the
main chemical methods of vector control, including the use of
indoor residual spraying, space treatments, the use of treated bed
nets and larviciding, but also stresses the importance of drainage
schemes and improvement of houses to prevent access of indoor
vectors, techniques that have largely been responsible for reducing
the risk of vector borne diseases in Europe and the USA. This book
combines practical information from successful vector control
programmes, including early use of DDT, and recent research into a
vital resource for all those now involved in combating insect
vector borne diseases.
"Integrated Vector Management" is an essential tool, not only
for medical entomologists and those directly involved in government
health departments, but also for all those who provide the skills
and management needed to operate successful area-wide vector
management programmes. Libraries in all universities and research
establishments world-wide, where biological sciences, medicine and
agriculture are studied and taught should have multiple copies of
this important book.
Written in easy to follow language, the book presents cutting-edge
agriculturally relevant plant biotechnologies and applications in a
manner that is accessible to all. This book updates and introduces
the scope and method of plant biotechnologies and molecular
breeding within the context of environmental analysis and
assessment, a diminishing supply of productive arable land, scarce
water resources and climate change. New plant breeding techniques
including CRISPR-cas system are now tools to meet these challenges
both in developed countries and in developing countries. Ethical
issues, intellectual property rights, regulation policies in
various countries related to agricultural biotechnology are
examined. The rapid developments in plant biotechnology are
explained to a large audience with relevant examples. New varieties
of crops can be adapted to new climatic conditions in order to
reduce pest-associated losses and the adverse abiotic effects
Plant bugs -- Miridae, the largest family of the Heteroptera, or
true bugs -- are globally important pests of crops such as alfalfa,
apple, cocoa, cotton, sorghum, and tea. Some also are predators of
crop pests and have been used successfully in biological control.
Certain omnivorous plant bugs have been considered both harmful
pests and beneficial natural enemies of pests on the same crop,
depending on environmental conditions or the perspective of an
observer.
As high-yielding varieties that lack pest resistance are
planted, mirids are likely to become even more important crop
pests. They also threaten crops as insecticide resistance in the
family increases, and as the spread of transgenic crops alters
their populations. Predatory mirids are increasingly used as
biocontrol agents, especially of greenhouse pests such as thrips
and whiteflies. Mirids provide abundant opportunities for research
on food webs, intraguild predation, and competition.
Recent worldwide activity in mirid systematics and biology
testifies to increasing interest in plant bugs. The first thorough
review and synthesis of biological studies of mirids in more than
60 years, Biology of the Plant Bugs will serve as the basic
reference for anyone studying these insects as pests, beneficial
IPM predators, or as models for ecological research.
This book reviews the latest research on bioproducts from various
economically important insects, such as silkworms, honey bees, lac
and drosophila, and termites, and discusses their general,
biomedical and industrial applications in detail. It includes
chapters focusing on insects as a food source, probiotics,
silk-based biomaterials, insect pheromones, insects as biomedicine
source, pupa oil chemistry, non-protein compounds from Lepidopteran
insects, insect chitin and chitosan, polyphenols and flavonoids.
Model insects like Bombyx mori or bees were domesticated in Asian
countries thousands of years ago. Over time, natural products from
these animals became industrialized and today they attracting
increasing attention thanks to their sustainability and their
manifold applications in agriculture and biomedicine. The book is
intended for entomologists, material scientists, natural product
researchers and biotechnologists.
The California Tortoiseshell, West Coast Lady, Red Admiral, and
Golden Oak Hairstreak are just a few of the many butterfly species
found in the floristically rich San Francisco Bay and Sacramento
Valley regions. This guide, written for both beginning and
experienced butterfly watchers by one of the nation's best-known
professional lepidopterists, provides thorough, up-to-date
information on all of the butterfly species found in this diverse
and accessible region. Written in lively prose, it discusses the
natural history and conservation status for these butterflies and
at the same time provides an integrated view of butterfly biology
based on studies conducted in northern California and around the
world. Compact enough for use in the field, the guide also includes
tips on butterfly watching, photography, gardening, and more. It
discusses and identifies more than 130 species. Species accounts
include information on identifying butterflies through behavior,
markings, and host plants. Beautiful full-color plates illustrate
top and bottom views of wings for easier identification. It also
includes a species checklist and a glossary.
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Austin Mardon, Hadia Saleem, Ezzah Inayat
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This book compiles for the first time all the current information
on the electronic monitoring of the feeding behavior of
phytophagous true bugs. It includes state-of-the-art illustrations
of feeding sites on the various plant structures, and examines how
the different feeding strategies are related to the variable
waveforms generated using the electropenetrography (EPG) technique.
Further, the book describes the mouthparts and modes of feeding and
discusses the physical and chemical damage resulting from feeding
activities. Covering in detail all EPG studies developed and
conducted using true bugs published to date, it explores the use of
electronic monitoring of feeding coupled with histological analyses
to improve strategies to control true bugs, from traditional
chemical methods to gene silencing (RNAi).
This textbook provides the first overview of plant-animal
interactions for twenty years focused on the needs of students and
professors. It discusses a range of topics from the basic
structures of plant-animal interactions to their evolutionary
implications in producing and maintaining biodiversity. It also
highlights innovative aspects of plant-animal interactions that can
represent highly productive research avenues, making it a valuable
resource for anyone interested in a future career in ecology.
Written by leading experts, and employing a variety of didactic
tools, the book is useful for students and teachers involved in
advanced undergraduate and graduate courses addressing areas such
as herbivory, trophic relationships, plant defense, pollination and
biodiversity.
This book is the first to integrate biological control into a
conceptual framework - ecostacking - uniting all aspects of
biological control and ecosystem services. In 2018 the "First
International Congress of Biological Control" was organised and
held in Beijing, China. The chapters highlight some of the
achievements presented at the congress, worldwide. Of particular
significance are the numerous contributions by Chinese researchers
illustrating the remarkable progress made on developing and
adopting multiple biological control strategies over vast
agricultural areas, largely replacing chemical pesticides for
sustainable agricultural and horticultural production. In many
parts of the world including Europe, fragmented research based on
short-term funding has been unable to answer to the needs to
develop sustainable long-term solutions to crop protection, while
colleagues in China have been successful in implementing programs
that exemplify the power of the ecostacking approach. Key
contributions by European and US specialists combined with the
expertise and experiences by the Chinese contributors comprise the
building blocks for the integration of biological control
approaches into the overall frame of ecostacking. This book will
lead the way to a broader, integrated adoption of biological
control techniques in sustainable pest, disease and weed management
supporting also the functioning of other key ecosystem services.
Chapter 2 of this book isavailable open access under a CC BY 4.0
license at link.springer.com
Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), the
spotted wing drosophila (SWD), is the most important pest affecting
berry crop production worldwide. The global fresh fruit trade,
coupled with the ability of the larvae to hide inside the fruit
undetected until after transportation, facilitate their
distribution. SWD is native to Asia, but is increasingly found in
other regions: occurrences have been recorded in the Americas and
Europe, and Africa, and the insects have the potential to adapt and
become established in Oceania. Gathering the experiences of leading
scientists in the management of D. suzukii around the globe, the
book addresses D. suzukii monitoring; biological, chemical and
cultural control; sterile insect technique (SIT); integrated pest
management (IPM), and other control methods. It also discusses the
use of drones, GPS, biotechnology, telemetry and other
technological tools to make the management of this pest more
efficient and accurate. As such, it is a valuable resource for
scientists, professionals and students.
Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of
principles, rules, and recommendations governing phylogenetic
nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades - lineages of organisms - are
defined by reference to hypotheses of phylogenetic history rather
than by taxonomic ranks and types. This volume will document the
Real World uses of PhyloCode and will govern and apply to the names
of clades, while species names will still be governed by
traditional codes. Key Features Provides clear regulations for
implementing new guidelines for naming lineages of organisms
incorporates expressly evolutionary and phylogenetic principles
Works with existing codes of nomenclature Eliminates the reliance
on rank-based classification in favor of phylogenetic relationships
Related Titles: Rieppel, O. Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to
Hennig (ISBN 978-1-4987-5488-0) Cantino, P. D. and de Queiroz, K.
International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature (PhyloCode) (ISBN
978-1-138-33282-9).
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