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Save with Quantity Discounts—see inside ENTOMOLOGY 2021 DISTRIBUTED IN THE AMERICAS BY www.styluspub.com CONTENTS CABI CABI Titles ..................1 CABI is a not- for-profit international organization Backlist .................... 6 that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying CSIRO/Insects of Australia .. 9 scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Skills and Reference ........10 CABI’s 48 member countries guide For the Budding and influence our work which is ENTOMOLOGY 2021 / CONTENTS / CONTENTS 2021 ENTOMOLOGY Entomologist ...............12 delivered by scientific staff based around the world. Order Form ...inside back cover WEBSITE: www.cabi.org/bookshop Need a resource CSIRO for classroom use? Publishing Any paperback in this catalog is available CSIRO Publishing operates to evaluate for course use. Copies are as an independent science shipped on 90 day approval. 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The main focus is postgraduate textbook on courtship and mating— covering the key principles, including perching, searching methodologies, approaches and territorial behavior—but and practical examples of to understand these subjects insect pest management it is necessary to explain how mates are chosen and this in agricultural, post requires sections on wing colors and patterns. A chapter on harvest systems, horticulture, insect vectors and medical butterfly vision is also essential in terms of how butterflies and veterinary entomology, featuring the underpinning see the world and each other. There have been exciting monitoring and forecasting of pest outbreaks; yield loss discoveries in all of these fields in recent years, including: and impact assessments and all of the latest methods of butterfly vision (butterfly photoreceptors), wing patterns control and management of insects from insecticides; host (molecular biology), wing coloration (structural colors and manipulation; plant resistance; biological control; use of nano-architecture), mating strategies and female choice interference; agronomic precision control methods; and (ecology and behavior). socio-economic and research management aspects of 384 pp, 6 in x 9 in, illus & 242 color photos developing integrated approaches to pest management. 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Examples especially their use in biological control, but also as soil include factors affecting the size of egg batches, fast formers and their importance in forensic science. or slow larval growth, waiting or searching for mates, migrating or staying put in the habitat, roosting alone or Autecology (or single-species ecology) and its application together in aggregations, and the development of different to pest management is the focus of the second section defense mechanisms. The book focuses on the factors and of the book. First, some general aspects of autecology trade-offs leading to the development and evolution of are examined, including species abundance, competition distinct traits emerging in the life cycle of butterflies within and speciation, and relevant genetics. 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The book is supported by an extensive glossary and 784 pp, 7 in x 9 in bibliography and, to encourage incentives for ideas, it is Cloth, Dec 2020, 978 1 78924 118 1, $ 275.00 liberally illustrated with diagrams for exploring in greater depth the relationships in butterfly biology. 472 pp, 7 in x 9 in, illus Cloth, Nov 2020, 978 1 78924 357 4, $ 210.00 TO ORDER: Call 1.800.232.0223 Fax 703.661.1501 E-mail [email protected] Online www.StylusPub.com 1 FORTHCOMING Key Questions in Ecology Urban Ecology Its Nature and These books have been produced in a convenient Challenges format so that they can be used at any time in any place. The 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) Edited by Pedro Barbosa are set for three levels—foundation, intermediate By 2030, up to 90% of the and advanced. 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