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1996-10-19 Grasshoppers and locusts cause extensive damage to a wide variety of crops and can be persistent in gardens year after year. Several ideas for their control are presented.
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1999-07-19 The diamondback caterpillar,Plutella xylostella, (larva of amoth) is a very serious pest of cabbage and other crops. When highly fertilized collard greens (B. oleracea, Acephala Group), a related vegetable, are planted completely around a field, moths lay their eggs on the collards rather than on...
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2000-06-20 Mosquito nets are effective in protecting people sleeping under them as long as the nets have no holes and people are not sleeping up against them. However, a mosquito will continue searching until it finds a way in or finds part of the body that is against the net where it can bite through....
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Access Agriculture Training Video Grasshoppers and snails can be a serious problem for any vegetable seedbed as they chew the tender stems of seedlings. Caterpillars can also cause damage, but more so on tomato and cabbage than on chilli.To protect their young crops many farmers use pesticides....
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1999-03-19 Horn flies have been controlled with insecticides in the U.S. since the early 1950s. An alternative, mechanical means of control (horn fly trap) was developed prior to World War II, but this never made its way into mainstream agriculture because of the growing use of pesticides following the war....
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This book includes a discussion of bio-control agents, a gallery of bugs, and products that can be used as part of a bio-control plan.
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In this book you can learn about means of eliminating or drastically decreasing insect pests by 'biological control," that is, through the introduction of their natural enemies--other insects which act as parasites or predators and, in sufficient numbers, will destroy the enemy--or, by the...
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The definitive work in its field--gives more information on the pests of agricultural crops, humans, domestic animals and the home than any other book. Comprises a brief and concise introduction to entomology, covering insect anatomy, morphology, development, physiology and classification. Unique...
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1994-01-01 This book lists some important, common, and potential pests of vegetables in the Southeastern United States including how to manage and control these pests.
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1990-01-01 This book attempts, at least partially, to overcome these obstacles to information flow, and to present a specific subject within our scope in a simple and understandable, although by no means complete way. The intention is to make existing knowledge more easily accessible and to present it in a...