APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY         

  Applied Entomology deals with both destructive and useful insects, namely, productive insects such as honey bee and silk worm, whose products can be directly used by man, pollinators such as bees, wasps and butterflies and parasites of the noxious pests of agriculture and control of the pests of agriculture, forestry, orchards, livestock as well as vectors of diseases such as housefly, mosquito, flea etc.          

    The following chapters are included in this section.   

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• Books on Applied Entomology
• Pests of agriculture
• Pests of stored grains
• Safe storage of grains
• Pests of forests and orchards
• Household insects
• Medical entomology
• Mechanical and physical control
• Cultural control
• Genetic control
• Sterile insect release method
• Biological Control
• Integrated Pest Management
• Apiculture
• Sericulture
• Lac culture
• The Honey Bee
• Hormonal Control

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ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY

                  Economic zoology deals with the application of zoological knowledge for the benefit of mankind. It includes culturing animals for mass production for human use and to control or eradicate animals that are injurious to man directly or indirectly.                       

       The following chapters are included here. Click on the title to open.

• Books on Economic Zoology
• Beneficial and harmful insects
• Sugarcane pest – Pyrilla perpusilla
• Castor pest – Achaea janata
• Rice grain pest – Sitophilus oryzae
• Apiculture (Bee-keeping)
• Honey bee
• Sericulture (Silk worm)
• Lac culture (Lac insect)  
• Carp culture
• Pearl culture and mollusc culture
• Prawn culture
• Venomous animals – Centipedes, wasps, honey bee  
• Diseases of man
• Cattle and livestock diseases
• Arthropod vectors of diseases
• Non-poisonous and poisonous snakes of India  
• Model organisms used in research

 (copyright Dr. Girish Chandra)

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