Handbook of Forage and Rangeland Insects

Includes more than 250 color photographs and maps, injury and illustrated insect identification keys, glossary, and index!

Edited by William O. Lamp, Richard C. Berberet, Leon G. Higley and Craig R. Baird

“The volume will greatly benefit farmers, extension agents, pest control operators, and research scientists seeking an excellent reference on this subject.”
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Handbook of Forage and Rangeland Insects is a comprehensive text that examines agricultural pest management from all angles – magnifying practical field strategies for growers, updating growers on the latest protection techniques, and preventing needless crop loss as a result of outdated pest control procedures.

Forage and rangeland crops harbor a wide variety of injurious and beneficial arthropods. This book will help individuals (producers, land managers, consultants, extension personnel, researches, teachers, and students) to identify these arthropods and to outline methods for the management of both beneficial and harmful species.

Contents

About the Editors/Contributing Authors

How to Use This Handbook

Forage and Rangeland Production

Important Grasses and legumes

Ecology and Physiology of Forage Crops

Production Practices

Arthropods and Their Management

Injury Caused by Arthropod Pests

Integrated Pest Management

Identification of Arthropods and Diagnosis of Injury

Key to Pest Injury

Key to Arthropod Pests

Injurious Arthropods

Foliar Pests

Ants

Aphids
Blister Beetles
Caterpillars
Chinchbugs
Grasshoppers and Crickets
Leafhoppers and Planthoppers
Leafminers
Mites
Plant Bugs
Spittlebugs
Stem Borers
Stink Bugs
Thrips
Treehoppers
Weevils

Root Feeders

Crane Fliers
Weevils and Root Borers

White Grubs
Flower and Seed Feeders

Lygus Bugs
Seed Chalcid Wasps

Beneficial Organisms

Natural Enemies of Insects
            Fly Parasitoids
            Wasp Parasitoids
            Lady Beetle Predators
            Spider Predators
            True Bug Predators
            Entomopathogens

Pollinators
Weed Biological Control Agents

References Cited

Glossary

Sources of Local Information

Index

2007; 8.25” x 10.88” softcover; 188 pages; 254 photographs and maps; ISBN 0-9776209-0-5; (2 lb.);
Item No. 20905

Copublished by the Entomological Society of America and The American Phytopathological Society.
© Entomological Society of America.

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