Pests of field crops and pastures

By Peter Bailey

Subjects: Field crops, Identification, Agricultural pests, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, General, Agriculture, Diseases and pests, Pasture plants, Control

Description: This comprehensive handbook on economic entomology for Australian field crops and pastures is the first of its kind. It encompasses pests and beneficial insects as well as allied forms of importance in Australian agriculture. Organised by commodities ? such as cereals, sugar and tropical pasture legumes ? it examines all the pest species for a particular commodity across Australia. Identification, distribution, damage, host range, biology, risk period and monitoring techniques are described for each entry, accompanied by useful illustrations. The book also describes introduced biological contr.