AGS volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

In this timely volume the authors provide an authoritative digest of all the available information on the mites (Acarina) known to produce injury to plants of economic importance. They review our present knowledge of the general systematics, biology, and distribution of the world's phytophagous mites, and of their biological enemies, their role in the transmission of plant diseases, and methods for their control. Modern theories concerning the factors influencing the population development of mites and their resistance to pesticides are also reviewed. The authors all world authorities have also presented hitherto unpublished information in each of their specialized fields of activity. Taxonomic keys to the economic species and a complete key to all genera of the Eriophyoidae are included. Lee R. Jeppson is a member of the Department of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside. Hartford H. Keifer recently retired as Program Supervisor of the Insect Identification Laboratory, California Department of Agriculture, Sacramento. Edward W. Baker is a research entomologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland. 528 pages £13.75