Sustainable Insect Pest ManagementS. Ignacimuthu, S. Jayaraj Overexploitation of natural resources and excessive chemicalization of agriculture have led to poor sustainability of farm production. Indiscriminate use of agricultural chemicals has resulted in problems of pest resurgence and development of resistance on the one hand and has posed serious problems of environmental contamination through residues in food chain on the other hand. The importance of achieving food production through the use of ecofriendly sustainable pest management techniques is being realized more and more in the recent past. Eminent scientists from different research institutions have looked into this aspect seriously and have come up with many enlightening suggestions compiled together in this book. |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Evaluation ofMetarhizium anisopliae Metsch Sorok for the Management | 16 |
Perspectives in Sustainable Insect Pest Management | 19 |
A Scenario in Karnataka | 42 |
Indigenous Pest Control Knowledge of Tribals in Tamil Nadu | 58 |
TNAU IPM Module for the Management of Major Insect Pests of Rainfed Cotton | 84 |
Evaluation of Trichogramma chilonis Ishii Under Field Condition for the Management | 104 |
Ecologically Dominant Predatory Ant Species as a Resource for Sustainable Insect Pest | 118 |
Biological Control of Weeds in IndiaAn Over View | 153 |
Antifeedant and Ovicidal Activity of Some Plant Extracts Against Spodoptera | 176 |
Field Evaluation of Plant Extracts for the Management of Groundnut Pests | 195 |
Evaluation of Botanicals and Bioagents Against Major Pod Borers of Greengram | 210 |
Screening Host Plant Resistance Against Major Pests of Tomato and Evaluation of Integrated | 228 |
Bioecology of Podbugs on Pulses | 245 |
Field Testing of an IPM Package for the Management of Mulberry Leaf Webber Diaphania | 266 |
Observations on Biological Botanical and Chemical Control Tactics of Mulberry Pest | 285 |
Epizootic Occurrence Cross Infectivity Characterization and Safety of Nuclear Polyhedrosis | 140 |
Common terms and phrases
Agricultural Ambrose antifeedant aphids application Aprostocetus Bacillus thuringiensis beetle beneficials biocontrol biocontrol agents biological control bollworm cent chemical control chemical pesticides chilonis coccinellids corchorifolia cotton cowpea cultivars cypermethrin damage ecosystem effective efficacy egg parasitoids endosulfan Entomol farmer's practice farmers fertilizer field gall midge groundnut Helicoverpa armigera Hemiptera hopper hybrids imidacloprid incidence increased India infestation insect pests insecticides integrated pest management intercrop IPM programmes jassids Jayaraj larvae leaf extract leaf webber Lepidoptera longicornis mealy bug monocrotophos montrouzieri mulberry natural enemies neem oil nematodes NSKE oviposition parasitism parasitoids Patil pest control pesticides plant protection planthopper plot population predators production q/ha reduced Reduviidae release Research resistance rice seed treatment Singh soil species spiders Spodoptera litura spray suaveolens sucking pests sustainable tabaci Table Tamil Nadu thrips thuringiensis TNAU IPM module toxic transgenic crops trap crop Trichogramma tukra untreated varieties weed whitefly yield