Product Description

Thrips have surged to prominence as insect pests in field, plantation and greenhouse crops and now have a tremendous impact on international trade in fruit, vegetables, flowers and seeds. Thrips cause damage directly by feeding on plants and indirectly by transmitting destructive plant viruses. Their minute size and secretive habits make them particularly difficult to detect and control. This timely volume is the most comprehensive treatment of thrips as crop pests. It brings together work from experts in Europe, the United States and Asia, and encompasses the extensive recent developments in understanding thrip biology, ecology and pest control. The book is indispensable for agricultural advisors and growers concerned with thrips and a valuable reference for entomologists.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2496398 in Books
• Published on: 1998-03-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 764 pages

Review

"The first chapters of this book provide the basic biology, structure and behavior of thrips, particularly pest species. Chapters 7-12 concentrate on population biology and ecology. The articles pertaining to worldwide IPM of thrips, namely Integrated Pest Management in Field Crops, Tree Crops, Glasshouses, and Chemical Control, reflect the state of the art." --IPM Practitioner
"Thrips as Crop Pests is a compendium of 18 chapters on basic biology, research methods, and management of thrips, those minute, haplodiploid, mostly plant-feeding insects that are useful for addressing fundamental questions in biology, but extremely injurious to a tremendous diversity of crops and trees worldwide. . . . Lewis has chosen the contributors wisely, as the chapters are consistently of high quality, comprehensive, and authoritative. . . . This book should be considered essential for all workers studying the biology and management of thrips. Its value rests in drawing together fecund, diverse and obscure literature, which will make the job of studying thrips much easier, more productive, and perhaps more collaborative for many years ahead."--The Quarterly Review of Biology

About the Author
Trevor Lewis, Institute of Arable Crops Research, Rothamsted.