Commercial Insects
Commercial Insects

Author: Professor Omkar

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1003832067

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Despite being the biggest group of organisms inhabiting Earth in both diversity and sheer numbers, insects are barely commercialized. Most of the standard textbooks of applied entomology talk about insect pest management, and when it comes to commercial aspects of insects, only apiculture, sericulture, and lac culture are talked about. This book will help bring other commercial uses of insects and their economic potential to the fore. This will generate interest in further research on the commercial potential of insects, thereby harnessing a much-found resource. The book has the following salient features: 1. Encompasses all major aspects of beneficial and commercial insects. 2. Deals with edible insects and mass culture of natural enemies and beneficial insects. 3. Emphasis on the mass cultivation of beneficial insects for obtaining yields. 4. Discusses stingless bees and their products. 5. Helps to solve the problem of food scarcity and improve food security.

Earning Animals
Earning Animals

Author: Sasmita Panda

Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing

Published: 2016-11

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 396067080X

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This book on “Earning Animals” is written with a view to highlight the importance of some invertebrate and vertebrate species used for earning both at individual and national levels. It aims at creating awareness among students, entrepreneurs and unemployed youth for gainful employment. The candidate species selected are some useful annelids, arthropods, unio, fish and mammals. A chapter on aquaponics – a method of cultivation of fish and plant farming devoid of soil – has also been described. Since most of these animal species are included in the syllabi of Indian Universities and colleges, the authors believe this book will be helpful to the students to meet their curricular requirements.

CURRENT TRENDS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
CURRENT TRENDS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Author: Dr.R.B.Tripathi

Publisher: THNAUJ INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS

Published: 2022-09-02

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 9394638008

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Current Trends in Biological Sciences are more inclined toward interdisciplinary studies.The present book provides a balanced approach to higher levels of biological organization. It also serves in the emerging disciplines of conservation biology and natural resource management. Recent developments in the technologies have led to a better understanding of the living system and this has removed the demarcations between various disciplines of biological sciences. This book discusses and interprets major issues in environmental science, environmental technology, the effect of climate and weather on sericulture and aquaculture, toxicology, ecotoxicology, oncology, epidemiology, public health, biology and control of insect pests, haloarchaea, antimicrobials, transgenic plant development, ethnobotany, food and nutrition, pharmaceutical, soil science, biofertilizers this is all used to understand the challenges found in biological sciences. We attempted to provide up-to-current knowledge based on a basic concept in biological research involving a merger of diverse disciplines. Moreover, it takes a futuristic look at such important topics as sustainability, environmental problems and the relationship between toxicology, ecotoxicology and environmental science.

Format Friction
Format Friction

Author: Gavin Williams

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0226833267

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"With the rise of the gramophone circa 1900, the shellac disc mushroomed into the dominant sound format of the first half of the twentieth century. Format Friction brings together a set of local encounters with the shellac disc, beginning with its preconditions in South Asian knowledge and labor as well as early colonial expeditions to capture sounds, to offer a global portrait of this format. Spun at 78 revolutions per minute, the shellac disc had become an industrial standard, even while the gramophone itself remained a novelty. The very basis of this early sound reproduction technology was friction, an elemental materiality of sound shaped through cultural practice. Yet the recording of sounds was only one element in the making of this global format. Using friction as a lens, Gavin Williams reveals the environments plundered, the materials seized, the ears entangled. Bringing together material, political, and music history, Format Friction decenters the story of a beloved medium and so too explores new ways of understanding listening in technological culture more broadly"--

A Systematic Catalogue of Eight Scale Insect Families (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the World
A Systematic Catalogue of Eight Scale Insect Families (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the World

Author: Yair Ben-Dov

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2006-09-13

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0080465315

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A Systematic Catalogue of Soft-Scale Insects is a synthesis and catalogue of all the information published on eight families of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) worldwide from 1758 to the present. Data is provided on their correct scientific names, common names, synonyms, taxonomy, host plants, distribution, natural enemies, biology, and economic importance. This book will be a valuable compendium of biological and systematic information for zoologists, entomologists, crop protection specialists, quarantine officers, students studying entomology and related disciplines, and others who require information about scale insects for research and control projects. - Aclerdidae - 57 species in 5 genera - Asterolecaniidae - 229 species in 21 genera - Beesoniidae - 15 species in 6 genera - Carayonemidae - 4 species in 4 genera - Conchaspididae - 29 species in 4 genera - Dactylopiidae - 10 species in 1 genus - Kerriidae - 97 species in 9 genera - Lecanodiaspididae - 82 species in 12 genera