Farming with native beneficial insects : ecological pest control solutions /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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North Adams, MA. :
Storey Publishing,
c2014.
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| Series: | The Xerces society guide
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Table of Contents:
- PART 1 : Beneficial Insect Ecology - 1. Pest control with beneficial insects - 2. Why farm with native beneficial insects? - 3. Evaluating beneficial insect habitat - - PART 2 : Improving Beneficial Insect HAbitat - 4. Designing new beneficial insect habitat - 5. Native plant field borders - 6. Insectary stirps - 7. Hedgerows - 8. Cover crops - 9. Conservation buffers - 10. Beetle banks and other shelters - - PART 3 : Managing Beneficial Insect Habitat - 11. Reducing pesticide impacts - 12. Long-term habitat management - - PART 4 : Common Beneficial Insects and Their Kin - Predatory insects : assassin bugs, ambush bugs, big-eyed bugs, damsel bugs, minute pirate bugs, insidious flower bugs, predatory stink bugs, mantids, green lacewings, brown lacewings, checkered beetles, firefly beetles, fireflies, lightning bugs, ground beetles, tiger beetles, lady beetles, lady bugs, ladybird beetles, soft-winged flower beetles, soldier beetles, rove beetles, flower flies, hover flies, predatory wasps - Parasitoids : parasitoid wasps, scarab-hunting wasps, tachinid flies - Noninsect beneficial predators : jumping spiders, wolf spiders, orb weaver spiders, sheet-weaving spiders, harvestmen, predatory mites - - PART 5 : Plants for Conservation Biocontrol - Native wildflowers - Native flowering trees and shrubs - Native grasses - Cover crops and nonnative insectary plants.