Insect Predator-Prey Dynamics
Subtitle: Ladybird Beetles and Biological Control
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521622035
Subjects: Animal ecology; Insects (entomology); Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Arthropoda; Science; Science/Mathematics; Predation (Biology); Life Sciences - Zoology - Entomology; Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebrates; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates; Insect pests; Insects & Spiders; Biological control; Ladybugs
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.