Title: The dragon hunters /
Authors: Graham, Frank,
Date: 1984
Publisher: E.P. Dutton,
Physical description: xii, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
Abstract: Discusses the ladybug, citrus whitefly, ants, gypsy moths, the cereal leaf beetle, screwworms, alfalfa weevils, locusts, boll weevils, budworms, grasshoppers, flies, leaf miners, mosquitoes, wasps, and other parasites and pests and scientists' methods to control them.
Contents: First victory: The cottony-cushion scale and the ladybug -- Learning from the past: Time and the citrus whitefly -- Nature's maze: The whitefly and the aggravating ant -- The dreaded gypsies: Attacking the forest killers -- The dreaded gypsies: Concocting a lethal cocktail -- Deadly cargo: The battle against the cereal leaf beetle -- The laboratory: The collapse of the cereal leaf beetle -- The parasite hunter and the ice plant scale -- The devastating screwworm: The Florida strategy -- The devastating screwworm: The Texas solution -- The California red scale and its puzzling parasites -- The alfalfa leaf miner: The French connection -- The alfalfa weevil: The six-pak solution -- Microbials: Attacking the spruce budworm -- Plant pests: The water hyacinth and the South -- A plague of locusts: The search for nature's solutions -- The cotton conundrum: The implacable boll weevil -- The cotton connection: The teamwork strategy of integrated pest management -- The cotton conservators: The integrated pest management success in Texas -- Politics versus progress: The learning curve in California -- Coexistence at home: Our fields, our farms, your own backyard.
Notes: "A Truman Talley Book." Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Agricultural pests--United States.; Insect pests--Biological control--United States; Insect pests--Control--Biological control--United States.; Insect pests--United States.; Pests--Biological control--United States.; Pests--Control--Biological control--United States.