Insect Predator-Prey Dynamics
Subtitle: Ladybird Beetles and Biological Control
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780521017701
Subjects: Animal ecology; Insects (entomology); Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Zoology - Entomology; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebrates; Ladybugs; Science / Entomology; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates; Science-Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Science-Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebrates
First sentence: The first and most successful case of classical biological control was the introduction in 1888 of the Australian ladybird, Rodolia cardinalis, into California, for the suppression of cottony-cushion scale, Icerya purchasi.