Handbook of Vegetable Pests

Identifies the biology and management tactics for insects that affect vegetable crops in North America

John Capinera (Author)

9780128144886, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 24 April 2020

816 pages
27.6 x 21.5 x 4.9 cm, 2.13 kg

Handbook of Vegetable Pests, Second Edition, provides two types of diagnostic aids: the easy-to-use "guides to pests of vegetable crops", which guides the reader to the most likely pests of each vegetable crop based on the portion of the plant attacked and the category of pest; and the more technical dichotomous keys for identification of many of the difficult-to-identify species. It includes over 300 common and occasional pest species, detailing the geographic distribution of vegetable pests, host plant relationships, natural enemies, damage, life history, and methods of control and damage prevention.

1. Pest identification2. Class Insecta3. Order Coleoptera – Beetles, Weevils, White Grubs, Wireworms4. Order Dermaptera – Earwigs5. Order Diptera – Flies, Maggots6. Order Hemiptera – Bugs, Aphids, Leaf- and Planthoppers, Psyllids, Whiteflies7. Order Hymenoptera – Ants, Sawflies8. Order Lepidoptera – Caterpillars, Moths, Butterflies9. Order Orthoptera – Grasshoppers, Crickets10. Order Thysanoptera – Thrips11. Other Invertebrate Pests12. Class Acari – Mites13. Class Collembola – Springtails 14. Class Diplopoda – Millipedes15. Class Isopoda – Pillbugs and Sowbugs 16. Class Mollusca – Slugs and Snails17. Class Symphyla – Symphylans

Subject Areas: Pest control [TVP], Agronomy & crop production [TVK]