Description
Book SynopsisPalms constitute one of the largest botanical families, and include some of the world's most important economic plants. They are also unequalled as outdoor and indoor ornamental plants, and include many species that are essential components of the ecosystems of tropical and other warm regions. This book reviews the inter-relationships between palms and insects, emphasising the similarities in different world regions. The host plants, distribution, and bionomics of representative insects are discussed according to their feeding sites on palms (foliage, flowers, fruits, and stems) and their taxonomic groups. Host and distribution records for the most extensively represented insect families on palms are tabulated. Pest management and field techniques are also covered. This book is recommended reading for tropical biologists and agriculturalists, including entomologists, horticulturists and tropical ecologists as well as palm nursery growers, managers and enthusiasts.
Table of Contents1: The animal class Insecta and the plant family Palmae, Forrest W Howard 2: Defoliators on palms 3: Lepidoptera, Forrest W Howard and Reynaldo G Abad 4: Coleoptera, Forrest W Howard and Reynaldo G Abad 5: Orthoptera, Dave Moore and Forrest W Howard 6: Phasmida and Hymenoptera, Forrest W Howard 7: Sap-feeders on palms, Forrest W Howard 8: Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Forrest W Howard 9: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha, Forrest W Howard and Michael R Wilson, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 10: Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha, Forrest W Howard 11: Thysanoptera, Forrest W Howard 12: Acari, Dave Moore and Forrest W Howard 13: Insects of palm flowers and fruits, Dave Moore 14: Borers of palms, Robin M Giblin-Davis 15: Population regulation of palm pests, Dave Moore 16: Principles of insect pest control on palms, Forrest W Howard 17: Field techniques for studies of palm insects, Forrest W Howard
