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Controlling invertebrate pests in agriculture / Jessica Page and Paul Horne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Page, Jessica.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural pests--Control--Australia.
- Agricultural pests.
- Invertebrate pests--Control--Australia.
- Invertebrate pests.
- Pesticides--Application--Australia.
- Pesticides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Provides a detailed examination of the application of pesticides and how they may be integrated into more holistic approaches.
- Contents:
- Cover; Foreword; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Agricultural ecosystems; Before modern pesticides and fertilisers; What lives in a crop?; Predator-prey cycle; Understanding the type of interaction; 2. Pesticides; Insecticide resistance; Cross-resistance; Residues in produce; withholding periods; Non-target mortality; Disruption of biological control (primary and secondary pests); Insecticide resistance and beneficial species; Selective insecticides; 'Safe' insecticides?; Insecticide Resistance Management Strategies (IRM); Zero tolerance
- Pesticides: problems and how they can fit with other management optionsPheromones; Conclusion: minimal pesticide use; 3. Pest species; Lifecycles and life stages; Pest response when biological control is disrupted; When classical biological control is lost; When existing biocontrol agents are disrupted; Where do pests come from?; 4. Beneficial species (biological control agents); Predators or parasitoids; Commercially produced beneficials; Examples of commercially available beneficial species; Lifecycles; Movement of beneficial species; Naturally occurring beneficial species
- Common questions about beneficial speciesEffectiveness of biological control; 5. Cultural controls; What are cultural controls?; Manipulating non-crop plantings for pest management; Controlling weeds; Plant health; Crop hygiene; Cocoa pod borer; 6. Integrating control measures to maximise degree of control; Integrating the three control measures available; The role of monitoring; Making changes in pest management; Decision-making; A crisis in pest control; Two examples of pest control; 7. Changes in scientific assessment; Changes in scientific assessment and information loss
- Factors influencing successful control of pestsFuture strategies; 8. Examples of changing pest management: specific crops; Changing to IPM; Where a change to IPM did not work; 'We tried IPM and it did not work'; Successful examples of change to IPM; A final point; Glossary; Common and scientific names of species mentioned in this book; Species mentioned, listed by scientific name; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613582591
- 9780643103375
- 0643103376
- 9781280487361
- 1280487364
- 9780643103368
- 0643103368
- OCLC:
- 767907903
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