Indian Insect Pests

AUTHOR: H. Maxwell-Lafroy
PUBLISHER: Today & Tomorrow’s Printers and Publishers
ISBN: 9788170193586
YEAR: 1971 (Reprint Edition), 1990 (2nd Reprint), 1999 (3rd Reprint), 2009 (4th Reprint)
PAGES: 318
SIZE: 14.2 X 22.2 X 2.4 cms.
BINDING: Hard
LANGUAGE: English

ABOUT THE BOOK: The object of this book is to serve useful purpose of a manual of practical information for the use of intelligent agriculturalist in the protection of his crops from insect pests and provide a suitable textbook for use in Agricultural and Schools and Colleges to acquaint them with the working knowledge of insect pests and of the practical measures for. the protection of crops. This book is a testimony to the strenuous efforts made during a decade of Years in the field of economic entomology dealing with insect pests and their treatment by the author.
In this book the author has given a short account of the general features of the lives of insects as well as salient facts concerning destructuive pests and closely concerned his study with the part played by them in the reduction of the yield of the staple crops of the country and based his study on the Indian Museum Notes and other literature besides his and his other colleagues in the field and valuable information collected from Mamlatdar, Tehsildar to the high officials of the Government of India namely Director of Agriculture, Imperial Entomolgist, Botanists and Horticulturist, the illustrations are largely the work of the artist in the Indian Museum Babu C.C. Chakraburthy and remaining were prepared by other artists under the supervision of the author.

CONTENTS:
1. INSECTS IN GENERAL
    Insects, their structure and food
    Life history and habits
    Form and colour
    Classification and nomenclature

2. PREVENTIVE AND REMEDIAL MEASURES
    Origin of insects Pests
    Preventive and Remedial measures
    Insecticides and spraying

3. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO CROPS
    Pests of the cotton plant
    Pests of rice and wheat
    Pests of cane, maize and sorghum
    Pests of leguminous crops
    Pests of miscellaneous field crops
    Pests of vegetable corps
    Pests of fruit
    Caterpillar Pests
    Beetle pests
    Locusts, grasshoppers, surface beetles and burrowing insects
    Sucking insects

4. OTHER IMPORTANT INSECTS
    Insects infesting Grain
    Insects attacking cattle
    Benefical insects

5. APPENDIX
    Useful information
    Collecting, pinning, setting

6. General Index

7. List of Illustration

8. List of Plants