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Insect Pest Predators |
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Sathe, T V & Y A Bhosale |
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Pest predators are gaining more importance in pest management programme since pesticides lead to many serious problems like air and water pollution, health hazards, killing of beneficial organisms pest resistance, pest resurgence, secondary pest out break, interruption in ecocycles etc. The book includes taxonomical details of insect pest predaceous lady bird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinelidae) and collection, preservation, rearing and biology. It also contain predatory pray relationships, predator pest index and biocontrol programmes designed with predator in India and abroad. The book will be useful guide to students, farmers, teacher and researchers in the pest management. |
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| Chapter 1: | Introduction. |
| Chapter 2: | Collection, Preservation and Rearing. |
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Chapter 3: |
Taxonomy Family - Cocinelidae Sub family - Chilocorinae Genus - Brumoides Chapin, Brumoides kolhapurensis Genus - Chilocorus Leach, Chilocorus suryaphuli Sub family - Cocinellinae Tribe - Coccinellini Genus - Coccinella Linneaus, Coccinellini transversalis (Fab.), Coccinella madhuri, Coccinella bhuimungi, Coccinella yaminii, Cocinella yoginii Genus - Coelophora Mulsant, Coelophora orientalis Genus - Harmonia Mulsant, Harmonia soyabinii Genus - Menochilus Timberlake, Menochilus sexmaculatus (Fab.), Menochilus tuljapurensis, Menochilus shivajiensis, Menochilus kharipi Genus - Vernia Mulsant, Vernia polyphagi Tribe - Psylloborini Genus - Illeis Mulsant, Illeis sathei (a.k.a. satheri), Illeis darbari Sub family - Scymniae Genus - Horniolus Weise, Horniolus mirajensis Genus - Scymnus Kugelann Sub genus - Scymnus Kugelann, Scymnus (Scymnus) indica Sub genus - Pullus Mulsant, Scymnus (Pullus) marathi. |
| Chapter 4: | Biology. |
| Chapter 5: | Predator Pray Relationships. |
| Chapter 6: | Predator Pray Index and Biocontrol Programmes. |
| Chapter 7: | Summary. Bibliography. Subject index. Species index. |
2001, vi+169p., 201 figs., bib., ind., 23 cm
ISBN 8170352355
[T.V. Sathe is Reader in Entomology Department of Zoology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur.]
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