Handbook of Vegetable Pests, Second Edition, provides two types of diagnostic aids: the easy-to-use "guides to pests of vegetable crops", which guides the reader to the most likely pests of each vegetable crop based on the portion of the plant attacked and the category of pest; and the more technical dichotomous keys for identification of many of the difficult-to-identify species. It includes over 300 common and occasional pest species, detailing the geographic distribution of vegetable pests, host plant relationships, natural enemies, damage, life history, and methods of control and damage prevention.
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Table of Contents
1. Pest identification2. Class Insecta3. Order Coleoptera Beetles, Weevils, White Grubs, Wireworms4. Order Dermaptera Earwigs5. Order Diptera Flies, Maggots6. Order Hemiptera Bugs, Aphids, Leaf- and Planthoppers, Psyllids, Whiteflies7. Order Hymenoptera Ants, Sawflies8. Order Lepidoptera Caterpillars, Moths, Butterflies9. Order Orthoptera Grasshoppers, Crickets10. Order Thysanoptera Thrips11. Other Invertebrate Pests12. Class Acari Mites13. Class Collembola Springtails 14. Class Diplopoda Millipedes15. Class Isopoda Pillbugs and Sowbugs 16. Class Mollusca Slugs and Snails17. Class Symphyla Symphylans
AppendicesKeys to selected groups of pestsOther sources of information on vegetable crops
