Resources Tagged: Biological Control

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  1. Management of Silverleaf Whitefly

    This is a comprehensive manual on the biology, economic impact and control tactics for the silverleaf whitefly.
    Silverleaf Whitefly Pest Control Biological Control

  2. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard

    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...
    Pest Control Biological Control Insect pests North America Insect Management Farm Management Orchard Development Insect Identification

  3. AN Issue #37

    2019-02-15 Featured in this AN: Gracious Greetings from the New Regional Director of ECHO Asia Preventing Insect Damage of Stored Seed Using Low-Cost Control Options Rice Hull Gold: 10 On-farm Uses of Rice Hulls
    Pest Control Biological Control Seed Storage Rice Hulls Waste By-products Asia

  4. Insect Management on Organic Farms

    Insect management presents a challenge to organic farmers. Insects are highly mobile and well adapted to farm production systems and pest control tactics. On organic farms, where the focus is on managing insects rather than eliminating them, success depends on learning about three kinds of...
    Pest Control Biological Control Organic

  5. Intercropping for management of insect pests of castor, Ricinus communis, in the semi—arid tropics of India

    Abstract, 2012, Journal of Insect Science Intercropping is one of the important cultural practices in pest management and is based on the principle of reducing insect pests by increasing the diversity of an ecosystem. On—farm experiments were conducted in villages of semi—arid tropical (SAT)...
    Pest Control Biological Control India Asia

  6. Millipede Damage after First Rains

    2018-04-27 This article shares experienceswith milipede damage on cropsfrom network memberNoah Elhardt inSenegal and Bill Stough in Uganda. It also shares some potential control measures from a thesis by Ernst Ebregt.
    Biological Control Pest Management Pest Control Crop Protection Crop Pests Milipede

  7. Echos From Our Network - EDN 42

    1993-10-19 ECHO's name symbolizes ideas, information and seeds "echoing" back and forth between ourselves and our overseas network. We owe much of our effectiveness to you. There are many examples in this issue. The most difficult editing decision is always which material to delay. We have enough material...
    Pest Control Biological Control Termites Green Manures Leucaena Insecticide Fish Bean Tephrosia Grain Storage

  8. Sudanese Experience with Neem to Control Pests

    1991-12-19 The following are abstracted from an article in the magazine Baobab, #5, 1990. They in turn learned it from "The Farming World" of BBC World Service. First a review. You have read in previous issues of EDN and probably elsewhere about this tree's use in insect control. There are many active...
    Biological Control Neem Pest Control

  9. Insect nets in seedbeds - video

    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....
    Pest Control Biological Control IPM Integrated Pest Ma... AccessAgriculture East Africa West Africa

  10. Controlling banana weevils - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Learn how to spot banana weevils, how to keep them out of new banana fields and how to trap them. Available languages Bambara Bangla Chichewa / Nyanja English Fon French Hindi Kikuyu Kinyarwanda / Kirundi Kiswahili Luganda Spanish Tamil Tumbuka Urdu
    Banana Pest Control Biological Control Integrated Pest Ma... AccessAgriculture Weevils