Description
Book SynopsisCitrus pests are a serious issue for crop growers, causing problems in yield and economic losses. Citrus Mites is a comprehensive study of mites harmful to citrus plants from all citrus growing regions around the world. Providing a useful resource for identifying citrus crop pests, the text will also address methods of removal from plants, describe symptoms of damage caused by pests and discuss methods of eradication and control, making it essential for horticulturalists, pomologists and acarologists as well as practitioners, researchers and students of crop protection and pest management.
Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1: Citriculture and Injurious Mites 2: Introduction to Acari 3: Methods and Techniques 4: Plant Damage 5: Control Part II: Citrus Mites 6: Key to the identification of families, subfamilies, tribes, genera and species 7: Phytoptidae Murray 8: Eriophyidae Nalepa 9: Diptilomiopidae Keifer 10: Tarsonemidae Canestrini et Fanzago 11: Tenuipalpidae Berlese 12: Tuckerellidae Baker et Pritchard 13: Tetranychidae Donnadieu 14: Conclusions
