Pest management in the subtropics : biological control: a Florida perspective

Abbreviated contents: Foreword, Introduction, Early beginnings, Classical biological control, Conservation and augmentation of natural enemies, Insect pathology, Biological control of arthropod pests: Selected projects, Biological control of weeds, Plant pathogens and nematodes, Basic and supportive studies

Florida has become one of the world's leading centres of research and implementation of biological control and the main objective of this book is to bring together the entire scope of work carried out in Florida in this important area - past, present and future. It presents a very broad spectrum of biological control and is intended to serve as a general textbook and major sourcebook, illustrated mainly with Florida examples.