Pest Control Research: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, on S. 1794 ... September 30 and October 1, 1971 |
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Page 96 - Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It is a great pleasure to appear before...
Page 64 - FAO panel of experts on integrated pest control defined integrated control as 'a pest management system that, in the context of the associated environment and the population dynamics of the pest species, utilizes all suitable techniques and methods in as compatible a manner as possible and maintains the pest population at levels below those causing economic injury'.
Page 37 - Agricultural Experiment Station and associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University, once remarked that the "green revolution" has coincided with the period of most rapid increase in the CO2 content of Earth's atmosphere.
Page 144 - ... Bromeliaceae, XVII. Contr. US Natl. Herbarium, vol. 29, Pt. 11. Lyman B. Smith. 23 pp. Illus. 20tf. Smithsonian Institution, Washington 25, 1954. Composition of Cane Juice and Cane Final Molasses. Ser. No. 15. Wendell W. Binkley and Melville L. Wolfrom. Sugar Res. Foundation, New York, 1953. 24 pp. . Bollworm and Tobacco Budworm as Cotton Pests in Louisiana and Arkansas.
Page 144 - Dumas, BA, WP Boyer and WH Whitcomb. 1964. "Effect of various factors on surveys of predaceous insects in soybeans.
Page 13 - I would be pleased to respond to any questions you or members of the committee may have.
Page 68 - The population density of a pest at which control measures should begin to prevent an increasing pest population from reaching the economic injury level. A parasite which feeds on a host from the exterior. The first stage of development for nematodes and most arthropods.
Page 104 - FAO studies, cited in the pages that follow, indicate that the total food supplies of the developing countries will have to be increased fourfold in the next 35 years, to give their vastly increased populations an adequate, though in no sense a lavish diet.
Page 144 - Ark. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 204. Early summer dispersion within fields was mapped. Spot dusting controlled boll weevil until migration began and only small areas were treated. Isley, Dwight. 1928. "The relation of leaf color and leaf size to boll weevil infestation.
Page 101 - Integrated control is a pest population management system that utilizes all suitable techniques either to reduce pest populations and maintain them at levels below those causing economic injury or to so manipulate the populations that they are prevented from causing such injury.