Jervis's Insects as Natural Enemies: Practical Perspectives by Ian C.W. Hardy, Eric Wajnberg
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 779 Pages | ISBN : 3031238796 | 90 MB
There has been a dramatic increase in theoretical and practical studies on insect natural enemies over the last decades. The appeal of insect predators and, in particular, parasitoids, as research animals derives from the relative ease with which many species may be cultured and experimented on in the laboratory, the simple life-cycles of most parasitoid species, and the increasing demand for biological pest control as a key component of the integrated pest management approach.