Biological control in integrated management of deciduous fruit insect pests: the use of semiochemicals Dr Calvin Yeo

Biological control in integrated management of deciduous fruit insect pests: the use of semiochemicals Dr Calvin YeoOver the past 25 years, semiochemical based technologies have emerged as essential components of pest management programmes in deciduous fruit production systems. Pheromone based mating disruption is by far the most widely adopted behavioural control, with nearly 800 000 ha of fruit crops treated worldwide. The chapter reviews both the progress that researchers and practitioners have made, along with the hurdles encountered as they conceptualized,

It includes archival photographs and drawings and new architectural photographs

push-pull strategies with the use of companion (or service) plants

Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod analyse the economic research that underlies politicians' growing preoccupation with measures of 'well-being'

as historical phase and as theoretical field

Based on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork and conversations with Egyptian men from mostly low-income rural backgrounds who migrated as workers to the Gulf

local look

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illustrations

in two extensively illustrated volumes

This requires reducing the ‘yield gap’

This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers’ and audiences’ judgement about the social construction of aristocratic identity

Monocultures – including oil palm – are known to induce strong parasitic pressure