Pest Control

by Helmut F. van Emden

The various approaches to pest control are reviewed with emphasis on their history, advantages, disadvantages and future potential. The book discusses how far chemical control has created problems and how far these may be solved by further chemical control or by alternative methods. The reasons why insects are pest problems are discussed so that the ecological merits and demerits of the various control methods can be assessed. Stress is laid on both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521427886
• ISBN13: 9780521427883
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"