Biological Control
Language: English
Published by Plenum Rosetta, London & New York, 1974
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- Softcover
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From an academic library with the usual stamps and labels. This book was published as a paperback but has been re-bound by the library in brown cloth covered boards. A little pencil annotation. This is a heavy book and we will request extra shipping if ordered from outside the UK.
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- Title
- Biological Control
- Author
- Huffaker C B Edit
- Publisher
- Plenum Rosetta, London & New York
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Book Type
- A00018768
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0306200082
- ISBN 13
- 9780306200083
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition.
The explosive increase in the world's human population, with conse quent need to feed an ever-increasing number of hungry mouths, and the largely resultant disturbances and pollution of the environment in which man must live and produce the things he needs, are forcing him to search for means of solving the first problem without intensifying the latter. Food production requires adequate assurance against the ravages of insects. In the last three decades short-sighted, unilateral and almost exclusive employment of synthesized chemicals for insect pest control has posed an enormous and as yet unfathomed contribution to the degradation of our environment, while our insect pest problems seem greater than ever. Properly viewed, pest control is basically a question of applied ecology, yet its practice has long been conducted with little regard to real necessity for control, and in some cases, with little regard to various detrimental side-effects or long-term advantage with respect, even, to the specific crop itself. This book deals fundamentally with these questions. The development of pesticide resistance in many of the target species, against which the pesticides are directed, has occasioned an ever-increasing load of applications and complexes of different kinds of highly toxic materials. This has been made even more "necessary" as the destruction of natural enemies has resulted, as a side effect, in the rise to pest status of many species that were formerly innocuous. The application of broad-spec trum pesticides thus has many serious and self-defeating features.
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