Molluscs as Crop PestsG. M. Barker Mollusc species currently constitute a major threat to sustainable agriculture. This threat is associated with cultivation of new crops, intensification of agricultural production systems and the spread through human trade and travel of species adapted to these modified environments. In some crops their significance is only now becoming apparent with the decline in the importance of other pest groups which can be effectively controlled. The book focuses on: toxicology of chemicals; deployment of molluscicides in baits; specific crop situations worldwide; current pest status of mollusc species and progress towards development of solutions. |
Contents
Molluscicidal Baits for Control of Terrestrial Gastropods | 33 |
Achatina fulica Bowdich and Other Achatinidae as Pests | 55 |
Vaginulidae in Central America with Emphasis on the Bean | 115 |
their | 145 |
Helicidae and Hygromiidae as Pests in Cereal Crops | 193 |
Planorbidae and Lymnaeidae as Pests of Rice with Particular | 217 |
Urocyclus flavescens Kerferstein Urocyclidae as a Pest | 235 |
Agriolimacidae Arionidae and Milacidae as Pests in West | 245 |
Agriolimacidae Arionidae and Milacidae as Pests in West | 271 |
Agriolimacidae and Arionidae as Pests in Conservationtillage | 301 |
Bradybaena ravida Benson Bradybaenidae in CerealCotton | 315 |
Gastropods as Pests in Vegetable and Ornamental Crops | 337 |
Integrated Management of Cantareus aspersus Müller | 353 |
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