Product Description

This book is the best-ever practical guide to the identification and biology of beneficial organisms that control pests. Growers, pest control advisers, landscape professionals, home gardeners, pest management teachers and students, and anyone fascinated by natural enemies and their prey will want this book to find, identify, and use natural enemies to control pests in almost any agricultural crop, garden, or landscape.

The Natural Enemies Handbook is superbly illustrated with 180 high-quality color photographs and 140 expertly rendered drawings, showing hundreds of predators, parasites, and pathogens that attack pest insects, mites, nematodes, plant pathogens, and weeds. The handy Quick Guide allows readers to locate natural enemies that they are likely to find on almost any crop or in the garden and landscape. They can then go to the main text for clear, detailed information.

Natural enemies are organisms that kill, decrease the reproductive potential, or otherwise reduce the numbers of other organisms. Biological control is the practical use of natural enemies to manage pests. Living natural enemies are the agents of biological control. Virtually every pest has natural enemies that reduce its populations under certain circumstances. The book fea-tures chapters on biological control of plant pathogens, nematodes, and weeds as well as individual chapters on parasites, predators, and pathogens of arthropods.

References, suppliers, and a comprehensive index make this an indispensable source book. The up-to-date review of applied biological control literature will appeal to scholars.

"Includes plenty of information useful to gardeners everywhere." --Organic Gardening

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #465317 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 154 pages

Review
"Includes plenty of information useful to gardeners everywhere." -- Organic Gardening

About the Author
Mary Louise Flint is the Director of the Education and Publication Division of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Project, University of California, Davis. She is the author of Pests of the Garden and Small Farm (California, 1995) now in second edition. Steve H. Dreistadt is Senior Writer at the IPM Project. He and Flint are coeditors of Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs (1994).

Customer Reviews

Empowering!
Yes, I feel empowered. I am always pleased with the good deals that I find on Amazon, especially books. I purchased this book months ago. Whalla! With the interesting information that I found in this book, with easy solutions, I was actually able to gain ground over the nasty little bugs that had taken over my backyard. This is a must have, companioned with or without Flint's, Pests of the Garden.

Biological Pest Control handbook
This is a great reference for anyone interested in biological pest control...lots of great photos for reference. Great price for anyone's home library.