PESTS OF TREES

     Large trees in forests, plantations and orchards are attacked by different types of insects. Generally in forests, insect populations are maintained below the damage levels by their natural enemies. But sometimes pest outbreaks do take place causing immense damage to trees and timber. In orchards pest control strategies have to be in place to deal with the pest outbreaks. The following insects attack large trees in forests and orchards.

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• Termites
• Locusts

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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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