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- Editors:
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Bruce L. Parker
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The University of Vermont, Burlington, USA
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Margaret Skinner
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The University of Vermont, Burlington, USA
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Trevor Lewis
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Institute of Arable Crops Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
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Table of contents (91 chapters)
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Introduction to Thrips/Plant Relationships
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- Laurence A. Mound, David A. J. Teulon
Pages 3-19
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- Carl C. Childers, Diann S. Achor
Pages 31-51
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- David S. Ellsworth, Melvin T. Tyree, Bruce L. Parker, Margaret Skinner
Pages 53-58
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Pest Problems in Field, Forest and Glasshouse Crops
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- François Fournier, Guy Boivin, Robin K. Stewart
Pages 71-76
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- Craig S. Hollingsworth, Janet J. Knodel, William M. Coli, John S. Weaver
Pages 77-80
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- Michael A. Foster, David A. J. Teulon, E. Alan Cameron
Pages 85-88
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- Margaret Skinner, Bruce L. Parker
Pages 89-92
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- Tracy C. Leskey, David A. J. Teulon, E. Alan Cameron
Pages 93-95
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- Lynne K. Rieske, Kenneth F. Raffa
Pages 97-100
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- David A. J. Teulon, David R. Penman
Pages 101-104
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- Kobkiati Bansiddhi, S. Poonchaisri
Pages 109-109
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- Galen Frantz, Felicia Parks, H. Charles Mellinger
Pages 111-114
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- Gregg S. Nuessly, Russell T. Nagata
Pages 115-118
About this book
Thrips (fhysanoptera) are very small insects, widespread throughout the world with a preponderance of tropical species, many temperate ones, and even a few living in arctic regions. Of the approximately 5,000 species so far identified, only a few hundred are crop pests, causing serious damage or transmitting diseases to growing crops and harvestable produce in most countries. Their fringed wings confer a natural ability to disperse widely, blown by the wind. Their minute size and cryptic behavior make them difficult to detect either in the field or in fresh vegetation transported during international trade of vegetables, fruit and ornamental flowers. Many species have now spread from their original natural habitats and hosts to favorable new environments where they often reproduce rapidly to develop intense damaging infestations that are costly to control. Over the past decade there have been several spectacular examples of this. The western flower thrips has expanded its range from the North American continent to Europe, Australia and South Africa. Thrips palmi has spread from its presumed origin, the island of Sumatra, to the coast of Florida, and threatens to extend its distribution throughout North and South America. Pear thrips, a known orchard pest of Europe and the western United States and Canada has recently become a major defoliator of hardwood trees in Vermont and the neighboring states. Local outbreaks of other species are also becoming problems in field and glasshouse crops as the effectiveness of insecticides against them decline.
Reviews
`The editors are to be congratulated in compiling this volume which should not be missing from the bookshelf of any thysanopterist, agronomist or entomologist, encountering this unusual but fascinating order of insects.'
Bulletin of Entomological Research, 1998
