Entomology
305 books
This textbook contains important, comprehensive and in-depth account of all aspects of insect physiology, providing wherever necessary also the fundamental knowledge of the various systems. Although it is aimed as a resource material for postgraduate students of entomology, it would serve as an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists and neurologists, entomologists, zoologists and insect biochemists. To achieve this goal, extensive references ...
Insects are small creatures that are unavoidable by humans and others animals. Their impacts in the universe are so numerous that they cannot be exhausted. This immense book is a complete source of valuable information on insects. The first ten chapters describe the fundamentals of technical entomology and the later chapters of the book are devoted to an analysis of the more important insect pest of the major crops.
It is hoped that the book will be highly useful ...
The work of entomologists, the people who study insects is extremely diverse due to the high abundance, species richness, and ecological and behavioral characteristics of insects. This book is intended as an introduction to the study of entomology, giving brief explanations and definitions of some chosen topics such as Introduction, Insect Morphology and Physiology, Classification of Insects, Insect Behaviour, Parasitism by Insects, Mites and Ticks, From Solitary ...
Insects and diseases are a major challenge to greenhouse production. IPM is an important tool in the management of these pests. The primary goal of IPM is to optimize pest control in an economically and ecologically sound way. IPM involves the integration of cultural, physical, biological, and chemical practices to grow crops with minimal use of pesticides. Monitoring, sampling, and record keeping are used to determine when control options are needed to keep ...
Insect pests pose a challenge to the efficient horticultural fruit production especially in Kashmir valley, as horticulture sector constitutes 60 per cent of the state’s economy. Fruit industry of Kashmir valley is prone to insect attack and can flourish if the losses due to insect pests are kept under check. In order to obtain optimal production of horticulture fruits crops and compete at global level in terms of productivity, knowledge about insect pests, ...
The book entitled Objective Guide in Entomology embodies a fairly comprehensive treatment of the objective type questions on Basic and Applied Agricultural Entomology. This book covers the: Entire field of entomology step by step in the form of questions and answers to be specifically useful for interviews viva-voce comprehensive preliminary examinations etc. Book consists of different objective type questions like multiple choice on the various topics like ...
This book covers 500 species of butterflies that have been recorded in Uttarakhand since the 1880’s. The book contains photographs of each of the butterfly species and provides key features to identifying them. Species photographs include images taken in nature as well as museum specimens to show their distinctive features. Short notes on the natural history of the butterflies are also included. This field guide was prepared to promote butterfly tourism in ...
This book has been mainly written keeping in view the requirements of the students of Agricultural Entomology of various Universities. The book provides a brief account on the structure, function, development and metamorphosis, and a comprehensive account on almost all the methods of pest control. The nature of damage caused by the important insect pests of crops, their life histories and control have been described. It is hoped that the students of Agricultural ...
The book, consists of 31 chapters, will be useful to scientists working in the field of entomology. Chapters 1-10 present comprehensive review of concept and implementation and future need of pest management, impact of climate on pest population, insect invasion, pollinators, pesticide use, bar coding as tool to understand diversity and pesticide formulation and safety to environment. The next 5 chapters present comprehensive information on host plant resistance, ...
Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary is situated near Mariani, Jorhat district, Assam, India. This field guide gives a brief overview of approximately 200 butterfly species to be found here.
Insects are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. They are among the most diverse groups of animals on the planet, including more than a million described species and representing more than half of all known living organisms. Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small ...
Aquatic entomology is the study of insects that live in the water during all or part of their lives. Many flying insects such as dragonflies, damselflies, caddisflies spend their larval youth in a stream, where they are the primary prey of fish. You can tell a lot about the quality of the water in a stream by the species living in it. Aquatic Entomologists sample, count, and identify the BMIs in a stream. Most BMIs thrive in clean water; relatively few tolerate ...
This book entitled “Pheromones Use in Field and Storage” is aimed at providing handy references guide for the researchers, extension officials, teachers and students of entomology who are indenting to specialize in pheromone research and technology. This book contains chapters contributed by experienced scientists in pheromone technology. It contains the work done in the field of pheromone basic research in labs and their field testing, efficiency and ...
This book is intended for anyone who is willing to take sufficient pains to acquire an elementary knowledge of agricultural entomology as a branch of general zoology. It is consequently written more especially for the student who embarks upon a university training in zoology or agriculture in preparation for career. It will further serve as a preliminary manual for the would-be professional agricultural entomologist during his first year's course. The more ...
Entomology, or the study of insects, offers great possibilities of advancing our knowledge about living organisms that might be extremely useful in the lives of human beings as well. It also provides an excellent pastime for lovers of nature who can derive immense pleasure from their collections of different species of beautiful creatures like butterflies. Chas B. Antrams' excellent book on India's butterflies is both a guidebook for those interested in ...