Biorational Tree-fruit Pest Management

Book excerpt: This book contains 9 chapters that cover topics on: conceptual framework for integrated pest management of tree-fruit pests; the evolution of key tree-fruit pests (classical cases); functional and behavioural ecology of tree-fruit pests; how do key tree-fruit pests detect and colonize their hosts (mechanisms and applications for integrated pest management); monitoring and management of the apple maggot fly and the plum curculio; trying to build an ecological orchards (a history of apple integrated pest management in Massachusetts, USA); managing pestiferous fruit flies through environmental manipulation; biorational approaches to disease management in apples; speciation, consumers and the market.