Insect Pest Stores and Their Control

ISBN-13: 9786203929942 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str.

Mohamed Abdel-Raheem; Ahmed Salman; Esraa Eldeghidy

Opis

This book covers the range of methods used to control arthropods causing problems after harvest and during storage of food commodities and agricultural products. Control procedures in use may be divided into measures based on physical, chemical or biological aspects. Methods based on extreme temperatures, atmosphere modification, physical barriers, impaction, inert dusts, irradiation, UV traps, attractants, natural and synthetic chemical pesticides, fumigants, growth regulators, pathogens, parasites or predators are described and threats to the continued successful control of pests are discussed.

O autorze

Abdel-Raheem, Mohamed Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Raheem Ali Abdel-Raheem, Professor of Entomology, Pests & Plant Protection Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Salman, Prof. of Economic Entomology, Plant Protection Dep., Faculty of Agric. Sohag Univ., Egypt. Dr. Esraa Eldeghidy, Plant Protection Dep., Fac. of Agric.,Zagazig Univ.,Egypt.