Optical Manipulation of Arthropod Pests and Beneficials
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A32=Daphna Gottlieb
A32=Gábor Horváth
A32=Joanna C. Chiu
A32=Joseph E. Funderbunk
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colour manipulation
colour vision
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crop protection
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insect vision
insect visual systems
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light regimes
optical manipulation
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pest control
pest management
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Product details
- ISBN 9781786394705
- Weight: 617g
- Dimensions: 172 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2020
- Publisher: CABI Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Arthropods as pests in crops, vectors of diseases, pollinators, and natural enemies of pests are of huge economic importance. They affect livestock, human health and food supplies around the world. This unique book examines and reviews how light and colour can be used to enhance pest management in agricultural and medical applications by manipulating the optical responses of arthropods. Arthropods use optical cues to find food, oviposition sites and to navigate. Light also regulates their diurnal and seasonal activities. Plants use optical cues to attract or deter various species of arthropod. In this book, an international team of experts show how light can be used successfully to attract, arrest, confuse and deter arthropods as well as to disrupt their biological clocks. The book: Presents an up-to-date and thorough summary of what is known about how arthropods of agricultural and medical importance respond to visual cues. Describes techniques that use light to manipulate pests and beneficial insects and mites. Presents a broad discussion of the potential use of optical manipulation of arthropods to improve the health of plants, domestic animals and humans.
David Ben-Yakir is a Research Entomologist in the Department of Entomology, Institute of Plant Protection, The Volcani Center, Rishon Le Zion, Israel.
