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Agriculture is now showing conspicuous signs of faltering because
of a breakdown in the services provided by nature. Industrialised
agriculture, in striving for greater levels of productivity, uses
inputs such as pesticides and fertilisers to replace natural
processes and causes pollution, health hazards and resistance
development in pest populations. The role of biodiversity in pest
management is a burgeoning area of research and forms of
ecologically based pest suppression are important examples of the
ecosystem services that can be provided by biodiversity. Moreover,
pest suppression can be achieved concurrently with providing other
benefits such as pollinator enhancement, natural enemies
conservation, dual crop production and even carbon sequestration.
In this book we have inventorized a total of 127 arthropod fauna,
comprised of 112 insect species under 106 genera, 56 families, 10
orders and 14 species of spider and a species of mite.The
biodiversity indices in bhendi or okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.)
Moench) was not reported earlier and henceforth we hope that the
book will stand as a base for further research in the biodiversity
of arthropods in bhendi ecosystem.
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