Handbook of Vegetable Pests, Second Edition, provides two types of diagnostic aids: the easy-to-use "guides to pests of vegetable crops", which guides the reader to the most likely pests of each vegetable crop based on the portion of the plant attacked and the category of pest; and the more technical dichotomous keys for identification of many of the difficult-to-identify species. It includes over 300 common and occasional pest species, detailing the geographic distribution of vegetable pests, host plant relationships, natural enemies, damage, life history, and methods of control and damage prevention.

Key Features:

Presents a current and comprehensive synthesis of vetted information for the support of both commercial and home vegetable production,

Includes over 300 common and occasional pest species, or species complexes, 

Summarizes the important findings of the last 150 years,

Provides citations to the original literature,

Table of Contents:

1. Pest identification

2. Class insecta

3. Order coleoptera – beetles, weevils, white grubs, wireworms

4. Order dermaptera – earwigs

5. Order diptera – flies, maggots

6. Order hemiptera – bugs, aphids, leaf- and planthoppers, psyllids, whiteflies

7. Order hymenoptera – ants, sawflies

8. Order lepidoptera – caterpillars, moths, butterflies

9. Order orthoptera – grasshoppers, crickets

10. Order thysanoptera – thrips

11. Other invertebrate pests

12. Class acari – mites

13. Class collembola – springtails

14. Class diplopoda – millipedes

15. Class isopoda – pillbugs and sowbugs

16. Class mollusca – slugs and snails

17. Class symphyla – symphylans