This book presents the past management by using predatory insects. It elucidates the characteristic features of predatory insects and their utility value in the field of Biological control and integrates them in Integrated Pest Management (IPM). During the last five to six decades voluminous scientific work on various aspects of predatory insects has been done at different Research Institutions and Universities in India. Since this scientific literature lies ...
This book has been designed to provide an overall understanding of all aspects related to the study of reduviid predators and its role in Integrated Pest management. The text is illustrated and presented in a simple, clean and lucid style. The first Chapter provides with nick names, morphological identification of reduviids, special characteristics and distribution od reduviids mainly in various agro-ecosystems. Second Chapter deals with the biology and ...