Overview
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Mary Louise Flint
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University of California, Davis, USA
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Robert Bosch
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University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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- Mary Louise Flint, Robert van den Bosch
Pages 1-7
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- Mary Louise Flint, Robert van den Bosch
Pages 9-30
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- Mary Louise Flint, Robert van den Bosch
Pages 31-50
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- Mary Louise Flint, Robert van den Bosch
Pages 51-81
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- Mary Louise Flint, Robert van den Bosch
Pages 83-105
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- Mary Louise Flint, Robert van den Bosch
Pages 107-119
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- Mary Louise Flint, Robert van den Bosch
Pages 121-179
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- Mary Louise Flint, Robert van den Bosch
Pages 181-215
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- Mary Louise Flint, Robert van den Bosch
Pages 217-224
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- Mary Louise Flint, Robert van den Bosch
Pages 225-227
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Back Matter
Pages 229-240
About this book
Integrated control of pests was practiced early in this century, well before anyone thought to call it "integrated control" or, still later, "integrated pest management" (IPM), which is the subject of this book by Mary Louise Flint and the late Robert van den Bosch. USDA entomologists W. D. Hunter and B. R. Coad recommended the same principles in 1923, for example, for the control of boll weevil on cotton in the United States. In that program, selected pest-tolerant varieties of cotton and residue destruction were the primary means of control, with insecticides consid ered supplementary and to be used only when a measured incidence of weevil damage occurred. Likewise, plant pathologists had also developed disease management programs incorporating varietal selection and cul tural procedures, along with minimal use of the early fungicides, such as Bordeaux mixture. These and other methods were practiced well before modern chemical control technology had developed. Use of chemical pesticides expanded greatly in this century, at first slowly and then, following the launching of DDT as a broadly successful insecticide, with rapidly increasing momentum. In 1979, the President's Council on Environmental Quality reported that production of synthetic organic pesticides had increased from less than half a million pounds in 1951 to about 1.4 billion pounds-or about 3000 times as much-in 1977.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of California, Davis, USA
Mary Louise Flint
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University of California, Berkeley, USA
Robert Bosch
