The Screw-worm
Author | : Mark Francis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mark Francis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Victor A. Dyck |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 1493 |
Release | : 2021-01-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1000377830 |
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from a scientific perspective. The SIT is applicable to some major pests of plant-, animal-, and human-health importance, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for the SIT. In the second edition, all aspects of the SIT have been updated and the content considerably expanded. A great variety of subjects is covered, from the history of the SIT to improved prospects for its future application. The major chapters discuss the principles and technical components of applying sterile insects. The four main strategic options in using the SIT — suppression, containment, prevention, and eradication — with examples of each option are described in detail. Other chapters deal with supportive technologies, economic, environmental, and management considerations, and the socio-economic impact of AW-IPM programmes that integrate the SIT. In addition, this second edition includes six new chapters covering the latest developments in the technology: managing pathogens in insect mass-rearing, using symbionts and modern molecular technologies in support of the SIT, applying post-factory nutritional, hormonal, and semiochemical treatments, applying the SIT to eradicate outbreaks of invasive pests, and using the SIT against mosquito vectors of disease. This book will be useful reading for students in animal-, human-, and plant-health courses. The in-depth reviews of all aspects of the SIT and its integration into AW-IPM programmes, complete with extensive lists of scientific references, will be of great value to researchers, teachers, animal-, human-, and plant-health practitioners, and policy makers.
Author | : United States. Agricultural Research Service. Animal Health Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Diptera |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Harvey Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Helen Gillman |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Livestock |
ISBN | : 9789251032008 |
Author | : Fred Corry Bishopp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Maggots |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Francis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Screwworm |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Theodore Lemuel Bissell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Screwworm |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas E Anderson |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2021-11-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0429722214 |
The efficient production of large numbers of high-quality insects is a concern both for basic research and for the success of control programmes for pests of agricultural and medical significance. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of this important issue, identifying the major applications for insect-rearing technology. The chapters, international in scope, cover genetics and molecular biology; insect rearing and the development of bioengineered crops; nutrition, digestion and artificial diets; and the practical concerns of commercial insect rearing.
Author | : Robert Swindells |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2012-03-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448100151 |
The worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench of its breath. Its slavering jaws gaped to engulf her... Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the monstrous worm - or dragon - that once terrorised the village. But it never really happened. Or did it? For when Fliss and her friends are chosen to re-enact the legend for the village Festival, the four who are to play the part of the worm dance as one across the ground. They are the worm. And Fliss begins to feel real fear. Somehow the worm itself is returning - with a thousand-year hunger in its belly, and a burning desire for vengeance...