Natural Enemies Handbook

This book is the best-ever practical guide to the identification and

biology of beneficial organisms that control pests. Growers, pest

control advisers, landscape professionals, home gardeners, pest

management teachers and students, and anyone fascinated by natural

enemies and their prey will want this book to find, identify, and use

natural enemies to control pests in almost any agricultural crop,

garden, or landscape.

The Natural Enemies Handbook is

superbly illustrated with 180 high-quality color photographs and 140

expertly rendered drawings, showing hundreds of predators, parasites,

and pathogens that attack pest insects, mites, nematodes, plant

pathogens, and weeds. The handy Quick Guide allows readers to locate

natural enemies that they are likely to find on almost any crop or in

the garden and landscape. They can then go to the main text for clear,

detailed information.

Natural enemies are organisms that kill,

decrease the reproductive potential, or otherwise reduce the numbers of

other organisms. Biological control is the practical use of natural

enemies to manage pests. Living natural enemies are the agents of

biological control. Virtually every pest has natural enemies that reduce

its populations under certain circumstances. The book features chapters

on biological control of plant pathogens, nematodes, and weeds as well

as individual chapters on parasites, predators, and pathogens of

arthropods.

References, suppliers, and a comprehensive index make

this an indispensable source book. The up-to-date review of applied

biological control literature will appeal to scholars.