Molluscs as Crop Pests

[center]G.M Barker "Molluscs as Crop Pests"
CABI Publishing | 2002-06-15 | ISBN: 0851993206 | Pages: 576 | PDF |
Mollusc species currently constitute a major threat to sustainable agriculture, 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. This book includes examinations of the deployment of molluscicides in baits, specific crop situations from around the world and synopses of the current pest status of mollusc cpecies or species groups and the progress towards the development of solutions.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
1 Chemical Control of Terrestrial Gastropods 1
2 Molluscicidal Baits for Control of Terrestrial Gastropods 33
3 Achatina fulica Bowdich and Other Achatinidae as Pests in Tropical Agriculture 55
4 Vaginulidae in Central America, with Emphasis on the Bean Slug Sarasinula plebeia (Fischer) 115
5 Apple Snails (Ampullariidae) as Agricultural Pests: their Biology, Impacts and Management 145
6 Helicidae and Hygromiidae as Pests in Cereal Crops and Pastures in Southern Australia 193
7 Planorbidae and Lymnaeidae as Pests of Rico, with Particular Reference to Isidorella newcombi (Adams & Angus) 217
8 Urocyclus flavescens Kerferstein (Urocyclidae) as a Pest of Banana in South Africa 235
9 Bradybaena similaris (de Ferussac) (Bradybaenidae) as a Pest on Grapevines of Taiwan 241
10 Agriolimacidae, Arionidae and Milacidae as Pests in West European Sunflower and Maize 245
11 Helicidae as Pests in Australian and South African Grapevines 255
12 Agriolimacidae, Arionidae and Milacidae as Pests in West European Cereals 271
13 Agriolimacidae and Arionidae as Pests in Conservation-tillage Soybean and Maize Cropping in North America 301
14 Bradybaena ravida (Benson) (Bradybaenidae) in Cereal-Cotton Rotations of Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province, China 315
15 Agriolimacidae and Arionidae as Pests in Lucerne and Other Legumes in Forage Systems of North-eastern North America 325
16 Gastropods as Pests in Vegetable and Ornamental Crops in Western Europe 337
17 Integrated Management of Cantareus aspersus (Muller) (Helicidae) as a Pest of Citrus in California 353
18 Gastropods as Pests in New Zealand Pastoral Agriculture, with Emphasis on Agriolimacidae, Arionidae and Milacidae 361
19 Agriolimacidae, Arionidae and Milacidae as Pests in West European Oilseed Rape 425
Index 441

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