Pests of Fruit Crops - A Colour Handbook
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Hardcover, 480 pages
261 x 194 mm page size
1,100 colour illustrations
ISBN: 978-1-84076-051-4
Price £95.00
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David
V. Alford,
BSc, PhD
Formerly Regional Entomologist and Head of Entomology Department,
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Cambridge, UK.
A
completely revised edition of this highly regarded book gives a systematic
account of fruit and hop pests – their recognition, biology and control.
The scope of the original book has been greatly expanded to cover
pests of fruit crops in temperate and sub-tropical regions. There
are over 600 colour photos from a total of 1100 new to this edition.
A major new chapter has been added on pests of sub-tropical crops
(particularly citrus, fig and olive).
The pests are considered in their natural sequence of less advanced
to more advanced forms, including a description of each, its life
history, plants affected and damage caused. Families of pests are
arranged according to generally accepted systematic systems, species
appear under scientific names and show common names. Detailed general
and scientific indexes allow cross-referencing between fruit and pest.
Contents: Introduction, Smaller insect orders, True bugs, Beetles
and Weevils, True flies, Butterflies and Moths, Sawflies, ants and
wasps, Mites, Pests of sub-tropical fruit crops. List of fruit crops,
List of ornamental and wild host plants, Selected bibliography, Glossary,
Host plant index, Pest Index.
Main Plants include: apple, medlar, pear, quince, apricot,
bullace, cherry, cherry-plum, damson, greengage, mirabelle, myrobalan,
nectarine, peach, plum, blackberry, boysenberry, loganberry, raspberry,
tayberry, blackcurrant, gooseberry, highbush blueberry, jostaberry,
red currant and white currant, worcesterberry, grapevine, strawberry,
almond, chestnut, cob and filbert nuts, hazelnut, pistachio, walnut,
clementine, grapefruit, lemon, mandarin, orange, pomelo, tangerine,
avocado, chinese persimmon, date plum, fig, hop, japanese persimmon,
kaki, kiwifruit, mulberry, olive, oriental persimmon, pomegranate
and prickly pear.
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If you like this title you may
be interested in A Colour Atlas of Pests of
Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Flowers also by David V. Alford
"Incredibly well researched, magnificently illustrated, astonishingly
comprehensive..... if you are looking for a definitive guide to pests
of fruit crops, look no further."
The Professional Gardener
"Anyone
concerned with fruit growing and training should have this book as it
is an essential reference book for the identification of fruit pests."
International Pest Control
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