A Critical Review Of The Techniques For Testing Insecticides

General principles of insecticide testing. Handling insects in insecticide tests. Standardisation of insects for testing. Stomach poison insecticides in solid form. Stomach poison insecticides in liquid form. Contact poisons in solid form. Laboratory tests of sprays and aerosols. Immersion methods. Injection or application of contact insecticides to individual insects. Fumigants. Insect repellents and attractants. Toxicological statistics.

This handbook is a companion to Agricultural Insect Pests of the Tropics and their Control (2nd Edition 1983) and, like the earlier book, it is designed as a source of reference about most of the major insect and mite pests of agricultural crops. These two volumes by the same author now present a world-wide coverage of the economically important insect pests of tropical and temperate agriculture. Students taking courses in entomology, agriculture, crop pest biology and crop protection, and professional workers concerned with identification and control of insect pests, will find this comprehensive account an indispensable handbook and source of reference.

Planning insecticide evaluation studies. Rearing of test insects. Determining LD50 values of insecticides. Insectary evaluation of insecticides. Field evaluation of insecticides. Physical assessment of spraying systems. Sampling insect populations and estimating insect damage in field experiments. Statistical analysis of insect populations and plant damage. Data reporting and making insect control recommendations.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

Pesticide Chemistry—3 provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of pesticide chemistry. This book discusses the development of pesticide industry and the progress in pesticide toxicology. Organized into 22 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the important findings with respect to the design of inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase. This text then reviews the statistical, analytical, toxicological, and philosophical role of pesticide residue analysis within the evaluation of environment and food problems. Other chapters consider the factors that influence the persistence of pesticides that are common to both soils and plants. This book discusses as well the insect anti-feeding substances contained in plant leaves, which are widely surveyed by monitoring with leaf-disc test. The final chapter deals with the biological tests necessary for investigating the biochemical and toxicity effects of pesticides to individual species in the plant and animal kingdom. This book is a valuable resource for environmentalists, residue chemists, residue analysts, toxicologists, and official crop protection experts.