Progress on Pest Management in Field Vegetables

Hardcover, x + 302 pages, NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: 1. Brassica Crops [Problems in Monitoring Cabbage Root Fly, Delia radicum (brassicae) by Oviposition Traps; Use of Egg-traps in a Warning System Against the Cabbage Root Fly; Thermal Requirements for Cabbage Root Fly Development; Factors Regulating Diapause and Aestivation in the Cabbage Root Fly; Emergence of Cabbage Root Flies from Puparia Collected Throughout Northern Europe; Preliminary Studies of the Factors Regulating Late Emergence in Certain Cabbage Root Fly Populations; Mortality of the Immature Stages of the Cabbage Root Fly; Forecasting the Times of Attack of Delia radicum on Brassica Crops: Major Factors Influencing the Accuracy of the Forecast and the Effectiveness of Control; Experiences with Action Thresholds in Cabbage Crops in Germany and First Results of a Collaborative Field Trial; Oilseed Rape Crops as a Source of Cabbage Root Fly Infestations for Cruciferous Vegetable Crops; Analysis of Cabbage Root Fly Population Measurements and the Derivation of Control Decisions; Effect of Chemical Treatment on Delia radicum and Its Parasitoids Aleochara bilineata and Trybliographa rapae; Development of Various Formulations for Controlled Release of Naphthalene as a Repellent Against Oviposition of the Cabbage Root Fly; Control of Cabbage Root Fly in Transplanted Brassicas by Insecticide Application to the Seedbed: A Report of Collaborative Work; Application of Insecticides for Cabbage Root Fly Control in Cabbage Grown in Small Peat Modules; Investigations of the Resistance of Cabbage Cultivars and Breeders Lines to Insect Pests at Wellesbourne; Sequential Sampling of Insect Pests in Brussels Sprouts; Conditions for Implementation of Supervised Control in Commercial Cabbage Growing; Preliminary Observations on Swedes with Resistance & Susceptibility to Turnip Root Fly (Delia floralis) in Scotland; Problems Encountered with the Use of Pheromone Traps for Monitoring Mamestra brassicae Populations in Belgium; Monitoring of Plutella xylostella Adults by Pheromone Traps: A Report of a Collaborative Trial; Detection of Movements of Oligophagous Lepidoptera Between Host Plant Sowings by Means of Sexual Traps with Specific Reference to Plutella xylostella & Brassica Species; Studies of Soil Receptiveness to Clubroot Caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae: Experiments on Responses of a Series of Vegetable Soils in Brittany]; 2. Carrot Crops [Field & Laboratory Studies on the Behaviour of the Carrot Fly, Psila rosae; Monitoring of the Carrot Rust Fly, Psila rosae, for Supervised Control; Towards an Effective & Economic Carrot Fly Trap: Progress Report 1981-1985; Integrated Pest Management in Danish Carrot Fields: Monitoring Carrot Fly by Means of Yellow Sticky Traps; Integrated Pest Management in Danish Carrot Fields: Monitoring of the Turnip Moth (Agrotis segetum Schiff., Lepidoptera: Noctuidae); Control of Heterodera carotae Jones (1950): Effectiveness of Available Methods & Prospects]; 3. Tomato Crops [Pest Problems in Field Tomato Crops in Spain; Development of a Control Programme Against the Aphids (Macrosiphum euphorbiae Thomas & Myzus persicae Sulzer) in Processing Tomato Cultures in the South-East of France; Present Status on Bacterial Diseases of Tomatoes in Greece; Disease Resistance: An Excellent Resource for World-wide Biological Control in Tomato]; 4A. Other Crops [Population Dynamics of Aphids as Vectors of Potato Viruses in Portugal; Susceptibility of Various Bean Cultivars to Bacterial Blights; Integrated Control of the Artichoke Moth (Gortyna xanthenes Ger.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Italy]; 4B. General Aspects on Pest Control Infield Vegetables [Insect Pest Management by Intracrop Diversity: Potential & Limitations; Present Status of Supervised Pest Control Methods in Field Vegetables]; Conclusions & Recommendations.…