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Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests
by Helen Harman • Jan H. Giliomee • Jocelyn A. Berry • Manuela Branco • Lyle Buss • Alejandro Caballero • Juang Horng Chong • Lucía E. Claps • C. De Klerk • Rodrigo Diaz • Imre Foldi • Antonio P. Garonna • Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin • Raymond J. Gill • Penny J. Gullan • Disna N. Gunawardana • Sunil Joshi • M. Bora Kaydan • Paris L. Lambdin • Yen-Po Lin • Christopher Malumphy • Zvi Mendel • Vitor Cezar Pacheco da Silva • Giuseppina Pellizzari • Ana Lúcia Peronti • Francesco Porcelli • Alex Protasov • Ting-Kui Qin • Andrea Amalia Ramos Portilla • Dewi Sartiami • Scott A. Schneider • U.G.A.I. Sirisena • Pompeo Suma • Éva Szita • Hirotaka TanakaScale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022