Overview
- Organized according to major classes of non-prey foods, including micro-organisms, sugar sources, pollen, and seeds
- Complete compilations of granivorous carabids and pollinivorous natural enemies
- Discusses the nutrition and defense of non-prey foods, as pertinent to entomophagous species
- Outlines broad similarities in the morphology and physiology of entomophagous insects that facilitates omnivory
- Special sections with new perspectives on how omnivory by beneficials fits within IPM frameworks
Part of the book series: Progress in Biological Control (PIBC, volume 7)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Glucophagy
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Pollinivory
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Fungi and Microorganisms
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Reviews
From the reviews:
"This work focuses on the role of non-prey nutritional resources with the worthy goal of improving the understanding and use of natural enemies. Lundgren … presents the nature and importance of glucophagy, pollinivory, granivory, and mycophagy to natural enemies, followed by an extensive discussion of applications, including diet supplementation strategies, compatibility with genetically modified plants, and biological control of weed seeds. … Includes taxonomic and subject indexes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." (M. K. Harris, Choice, Vol. 47 (2), October, 2009)
“This book would be useful for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers with an interest in biological control natural enemy biology food web dynamics, nutritional ecology, or plant-insect interactions. … serve as a valuable reference tool. … The book clearly succeeds in providing a comprehensive overview of the field. … Relationships of Natural Enemies of Non Prey Foods is a must read for those involved with biological control and arthropod pest management in general.” (Ian Kaplan, American Entomologist, Summer, 2011)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Relationships of Natural Enemies and Non-prey Foods
Authors: Jonathan G. Lundgren
Series Title: Progress in Biological Control
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9235-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9234-3Published: 27 February 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8095-0Published: 25 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9235-0Published: 26 February 2009
Series ISSN: 1573-5915
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0076
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 454
Topics: Invertebrates, Plant Pathology, Zoology, Plant Sciences