Author : Patricia J. Vittum
Publisher : Comstock Publishing Associates
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN :
The book provides an overview of detection and diagnosis of insect infestation, survey techniques, and principles of strategy and control."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0199733538
Examines how insects have been used as weapons in wartime conflicts throughout history, presenting as examples how scorpions were used in Roman times and hornets nests were used during the MIddle Ages in siege warfare and how insects have been used in Vietnam, China, and Korea.
Author : Arnold van Huis
Publisher : Bright Sparks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 9789251075951
Edible insects have always been a part of human diets, but in some societies there remains a degree of disdain and disgust for their consumption. Although the majority of consumed insects are gathered in forest habitats, mass-rearing systems are being developed in many countries. Insects offer a significant opportunity to merge traditional knowledge and modern science to improve human food security worldwide. This publication describes the contribution of insects to food security and examines future prospects for raising insects at a commercial scale to improve food and feed production, diversify diets, and support livelihoods in both developing and developed countries. It shows the many traditional and potential new uses of insects for direct human consumption and the opportunities for and constraints to farming them for food and feed. It examines the body of research on issues such as insect nutrition and food safety, the use of insects as animal feed, and the processing and preservation of insects and their products. It highlights the need to develop a regulatory framework to govern the use of insects for food security. And it presents case studies and examples from around the world. Edible insects are a promising alternative to the conventional production of meat, either for direct human consumption or for indirect use as feedstock. To fully realise this potential, much work needs to be done by a wide range of stakeholders. This publication will boost awareness of the many valuable roles that insects play in sustaining nature and human life, and it will stimulate debate on the expansion of the use of insects as food and feed.
Author : Samuel Emmett McGregor
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Abeille
ISBN :
Author : M. D. Pathak
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9712200280
Author : E. A. Heinrichs
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biological pest control agents
ISBN : 9712201902
Introduction; Biology and ecology of rice-feeding insects; Natural enemies of West African rice-feeding insects; An illustrated key to the identification of selected West African rice insects and spiders.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Gary R. Mullen
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080919693
Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Second Edition, has been fully updated and revised to provide the latest information on developments in entomology relating to public health and veterinary importance. Each chapter is structured with the student in mind, organized by the major headings of Taxonomy, Morphology, Life History, Behavior and Ecology, Public Health and Veterinary Importance, and Prevention and Control. This second edition includes separate chapters devoted to each of the taxonomic groups of insects and arachnids of medical or veterinary concern, including spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. Internationally recognized editors Mullen and Durden include extensive coverage of both medical and veterinary entomological importance. This book is designed for teaching and research faculty in medical and veterinary schools that provide a course in vector borne diseases and medical entomology; parasitologists, entomologists, and government scientists responsible for oversight and monitoring of insect vector borne diseases; and medical and veterinary school libraries and libraries at institutions with strong programs in entomology. Follows in the tradition of Herm's Medical and Veterinary Entomology The latest information on developments in entomology relating to public health and veterinary importance Two separate indexes for enhanced searchability: Taxonomic and Subject New to this edition: Three new chapters Morphological Adaptations of Parasitic Arthropods Forensic Entomology Molecular Tools in Medical and Veterinary Entomology 1700 word glossary Appendix of Arthropod-Related Viruses of Medical-Veterinary Importance Numerous new full-color images, illustrations and maps throughout
Author : Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 1918
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Jeremy M. MacClancy
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 184545684X
Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological and health-related perspectives, examine in a rigorously comparative manner the consumption of foods conventionally regarded as inedible by most Westerners. This book is both timely and significant because nutritionists and health care professionals are seldom aware of anthropological information on these food practices, and vice versa. Ranging across diversity of disciplines Consuming the Inedible surveys scientific and local views about the consequences - biological, mineral, social or spiritual - of these food practices, and probes to what extent we can generalize about them.
