Pests of Stored Foodstuffs and their ControlSpringer Science & Business Media, 8 mai 2007 - 478 pages This book is intended to serve as an introduction to the pests of stored foodstuffs of all types on a worldwide basis, and as a broad reference text. It is aimed at being complementary to the more detailed and more specific texts that are listed in the References. It does presuppose an adequate basic knowledge of entomology and zoology in the user. The stored products mentioned in the text are commercial products in the widest sense, including all types of plant and animal materials in addition to grain and prepared foodstuffs. Storage is viewed very broadly, from one day on a shelf to several years in a silo, or refrigerated store at -20°C. In many publications the produce surveyed has been restricted to stored grains, because of their obvious importance to human society, and because of the great quantities involved. For many different materials, of both plant and animal origin, there is a shortage of specific information, but it is to be hoped that this situation will gradually be rectified. It should be clearly understood that any reference to animal pests is made in the strict zoological sense, and refers to any members of the Kingdom Animalia. There is a regrettable tendency in some circles to use the term ‘animal’ as being synonymous with ‘mammal’ – a habit to be deplored! There is definite emphasis on animal pests in this text, but micro-organisms are included where relevant. |
Table des matières
5 | 41 |
TYPES OF PESTS | 55 |
TYPES OF DAMAGE | 71 |
10 | 77 |
3 | 83 |
FOOD AND PRODUCE TRANSPORTATION | 97 |
CLASS ARACHNIDA | 125 |
7 | 225 |
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abundant Acaridae Africa animal Anobiidae antennae attack bacteria beans borer Bostrychidae brown bulbs caterpillars cereal chemicals Cleridae cockroach colour containers cosmopolitan crops damage Dermestidae Distribution dried fruits effective Eggs are laid elytra Europe Family field Figure fish flies food material food stores fumigation fungi grain beetle harvest humidity important infestations insect pests insecticides insects inside instars kill larvae larvae feed Linn maize meat methyl bromide mg/kg mites moisture moth Muridae nest North America Oecophoridae optimum conditions parasites pest of stored pest organisms Pest status pesticide phytophagous pirimiphos-methyl poisons polyphagous population predacious produce stores prothorax pulses pupae Pupation takes Pyralidae recorded S.E. Asia seeds serious pest Silvanidae Sitophilus sometimes species storage stored foodstuffs stored grain stored products pests synanthropic temperate regions temperature Tenebrionidae termites Tineidae traps tropics tubers usually vegetables weevils wide range worldwide