Introduction to Insect Pest Management, 9780471589570
Hardcover
Smart bugs, smarter science: Farming better with integrated pest management.

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  • Hardcover

    672 pages

  • Release Date

    19 June 1994

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Summary

Taming the Insect Horde: An Introduction to Integrated Pest Management

Contributed papers by experts in the field detail how to put integrated pest management to work. Presents the philosophy and practice, ecological and economic background as well as strategies and techniques including not only the use of chemical pesticides but also biological, genetic and cultural methods to manage the harm done by insect pests. Covers such key crops as cotton, corn, apples and forage. This editi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780471589570
ISBN-10:0471589578
Series:Environmental Science and Technology: A Wiley-Interscience Series of Textsand Monographs
Author:Robert L. Metcalf, William H. Luckmann
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:Wiley-Interscience
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:672
Edition:3rd
Release Date:19 June 1994
Weight:1.08kg
Dimensions:243mm x 164mm x 36mm
About The Author

Robert L. Metcalf

Robert Lee Metcalf was an American entomologist, environmental toxicologist, and insect chemical ecologist. Metcalf was noted for making environmentally safe pest control achievable.

William H. Luckmann is the editor of Introduction to Insect Pest Management, 3rd Edition, published by Wiley.

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