Pest and Vector Control

This short, readable 2004 textbook is designed to introduce students to the biology and techniques of agricultural pest and disease vector control.

H. F. van Emden (Author), M. W. Service (Author)

9780521811958, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 January 2004

362 pages, 98 b/w illus.
23.6 x 15.7 x 2.4 cm, 0.715 kg

'This would be a valuable text for an undergraduate course on applied entomology, combining as it does breadth, detail and interest on agricultural pest and disease vector control in one slim volume.' Biologist

As ravagers of crops and carriers of diseases affecting plants, humans and animals, insects present a challenge to a growing human population. In Pest and Vector Control, first published in 2004, Professors van Emden and Service describe the available options for meeting this challenge, discussing their relative advantages, disadvantages and future potential. Methods such as chemical and biological control, host tolerance and resistance are discussed integrating (often for the first time) information and experience from the agricultural and medical/veterinary fields. Chemical control is seen as a major component of insect control, both now and in the future, but this is balanced with an extensive account of associated problems, especially the development of pesticide-tolerant populations.

Preface
1. Man and insects
2. The causes of pest and vectored disease outbreaks
3. Insecticides and their formulation
4. Application of insecticides
5. Problems with insecticides
6. Environmental/cultural control
7. Biological control
8. Insect pathogens
9. Genetic control
10. Pheromones
11. Plant and host resistance
12. Other control measures and related topics
13. Pest and vector management
References
Appendix: names of some chemicals and microbials used as pesticides.

Subject Areas: Insects [entomology PSVT7], Zoology & animal sciences [PSV], Medical parasitology [MMFP], Epidemiology & medical statistics [MBNS]