Pests of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Flowers (eBook)

A Colour Handbook, Second Edition

David V Alford (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012 | 2. Auflage
480 Seiten
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-84076-628-8 (ISBN)

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Fully revised and updated for the 2nd edition, containing over 60 new pests and almost 90 new colour photographs. Provides a unique source of permanent reference for all involved in the recognition, biology and control of the pests of ornamental crops, including professionals, scientists and students.

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Ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers have always been extremely popular and there is large demand-whether in gardens or parks-for alpines, bedding plants, cacti, cut flowers, house plants and pot plants, as well as herbaceous plants, ornamental grasses, shrubs and trees. The first edition of this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book was e

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Introduction

Insects:
- Collembola (springtails)
- Orthoptera (crickets and grasshoppers)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Dictyoptera (cockroaches and mantises)
- Hemiptera (true bugs)
- Thysanoptera (thrips)
- Coleoptera (beetles)
- Diptera (true flies)
- Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)
- Trichoptera (caddis flies)
- Hymenoptera (ants, bees, sawflies and wasps)

Mites

Miscellaneous pests:
- woodlice
- millepedes
- symphylids
- nematodes
- slugs and snails
- earthworms
- birds
- mammals

Selected bibliography

Index of host plants

General index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.5.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• ISBN-10: 1-84076-628-X / 184076628X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84076-628-8 / 9781840766288