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Citrus Mites
Identification, Bionomy and Control
Hardback
March 2010
9781845934989
More details
- Publisher
CABI - Published
3rd March 2010 - ISBN 9781845934989
- Language English
- Pages 352 pp.
- Size 6.875" x 9.75"
- Images 142 illus
$230.60
Citrus pests are a serious issue for crop growers, causing problems in yield and economic losses. Citrus Mites is a comprehensive study of mites harmful to citrus plants from all citrus growing regions around the world. Providing a useful resource for identifying citrus crop pests, the text will also address methods of removal from plants, describe symptoms of damage caused by pests and discuss methods of eradication and control, making it essential for horticulturalists, pomologists and acarologists as well as practitioners, researchers and students of crop protection and pest management.
Part I Introduction, 1. Citriculture and Injurious Mites, 2. Introduction to Acari, 3. Methods and Techniques, 4. Plant Damage, 5. Control, Part II Citrus Mites, 6. Key to the identification of families, subfamilies, tribes, genera and species, 7. Phytopt
Vincenzo Vacante
Prof. Vincenzo Vacante has an academic degree in Biological Sciences and his last academic position was full Professor of General and Applied Entomology at the Agrarian University of the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy.