Medical Entomology 2nd Revised Edition(For all Indian Universities based on UGC-approved syllabi) — B.K. Tyagi

ISBN: 9789387893917 • 280 Pages • 2020

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Issue on —— ENTOMOLOGY

• Plague • Tick-borne infections

• Biological disease transmission • Mechanical or passive disease transmission

with Reference to Climatic Variability

1. Introduction

• Japanese encephalitis and other encephalitides • Dengue fever • Malaria

2. Environment and Vector-Borne Diseases, • Accidental transmission

5. Major Insect Vectors and Pests of Public

• Class Diplopoda

• Class Insecta • Class Arachnida • Class Maxillopoda • Class Chilopoda

4. Blood Feeding by Vector Insect

Medically Important Arthopods3. Classification and Identification of

Health Importance: Zoogeograhy, Biology and Ecology • Mosquitoes • Sandflies • The housefly

CONTENTS:

Forth-coming

• The bed bug • Lice • Fleas • Cockroaches • Tabanids • Stable flies • Ceratopogonids6. Other Insects of Less Acknowledged Public Health Importance • Ants • Bees • Beetles • Fruitflies • Moths and Butterflies • Thrips • Wasps and hornets • Spring-tails • Earwigs • Dragonflies • Termites7. Non-Insect Arthropods of Medical Importance • Cyclops • Scorpions • Whipscorpions and solpugids • Spiders • M illipedes • C entipedes • Tongue worms • M ites • T icks8. Envenomation and Vectorization in Arthropods • Millipedes • Centipedes • Fleas • Tabanids • Ceratopogonids

• Sand flies • Tsetse flies • Ants • Honey bees, wasps and hornets • Blister beetles • Reduvid bugs • Caterpillars • Mites • Mosquitoes • Scorpions • Spiders • Moths and butterflies9. Pest/Vector Control and Management • Use of repellents • Insecticide control of vectors10. Major Vector-Borne Diseases Prevalent in India • Malaria • Dengue • Japanese Encephalitis • Filariasis • Leishmaniasis11. Less Prevalent Vector-Borne Diseases12. Vector-Borne Diseases Recently Eradicated from India13. Vector-Borne Diseases Threatening to Re-Emerge in India • Plague

14. Vector-Borne Diseases Prevalent Outside India15. Recently Emerged Vector- Borne Diseases in India16. Heamatophagus Insects and the HIV/Aids Introduction Transmission: Any Connection? • HIV • Coronavirus17. Insects in Medico-Legal Investigations18. Mimicry in Medically Important Arthropod Groups19. Medicinal Insects References Glossary, Abbreviations and Acronyms Index Annex 1. Insect Classification and Taxonomy

Vector-borne diseases (e.g., malaria, filariasis, dengue, chikungunya, Japanese encepha-litis, yellow fever, leishmaniasis etc.) are today one of the major causes of human suffering, both in terms of increasing morbidity/ mortality and stunting intellectual/ economic growth. No country, whether in tropics or temperate and developed or underdeveloped, is spared from their devastating impacts.This book, Vector-Borne Diseases: Epidemiology & Control, explores in a unique way several biological and ecological phenomena of vector-borne diseases in context with their impact on human health and economy, in addition to update our knowledge on emerging regional and global vector-borne disease scenarios, public and animal health preparedness to enhance prevention, control, and therapeutic measures by employing scientific and techn- ological advances through integrating available as well as innovative strategies to address current and future threats. This proceedings book of the 8th Int. Symp. of Vectors and Vector-borne Diseases is comprising 35 highly specialized articles on varied subjects presented in a lucid language and will hopefully serve a good purpose to all the researchers, university/ medical college UG/PG students, general public health enthusiasts/stakeholders and government officials who yearn to be updated on the subject of vector-borne diseases and are in some way or other

contributing their bit towards elimination or control of these diseases.

Vector-Borne Diseases:Epidemiology and Control — B. K. Tyagi

ISBN: 9788172335410 • 300 Pages • 2019

This textbook contains important, comprehensive and in-depth account of all aspects of insect physiology, providing wherever necessary also the fundamental knowledge of the various systems. Although it is aimed as a resource material for postgraduate students of entomology, it would serve as an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists and neurologists, entomologists, zoologists and insect biochemists. To achieve this goal, extensive references have been made to several textbooks and reviews, to a few research papers dealing with applied aspects of insect physiology and the resources available over the net.

The discovery of inextricable link between mosquito-malaria by Dr Ronald Ross in 1897 in India is said to be the greatest of all discoveries during the 19th Century! For his epoch-making discovery Dr Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, 1902, besides a string of lofty laurels bestowed with him both in India and Great Britain including Knighthood. Through his dedication to malaria he had obviously joined the extraordinary league of such great scientists as Dr Patrick Manson, Dr Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dr Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Dr Giovanni Battista Grassi, Dr Camillo Golgi and Dr Robert Koch etc., just to name a few for example. Ronald Ross was born in Almora located in the Himalaya in northern India on 13th May, 1857. He worked in the Indian Medical Service for 18 years, under highly compelling conditions and had got to conduct his malaria research through all thick and thin often investing from his personal source. It was during his service in Secunderabad, India, that he made the ground-breaking medical discovery on 20th August, 1897. While Ross will be principally remembered for his malaria work, this remarkable man was also a mathematician, epidemiologist, sanitarian, editor, novelist, dramatist, poet, amateur musician, composer, and artist. He was a true genius who braved his way without yielding to any pressure and carried the outcome of his research to a

decisive state of fruition.“Dr Ronald Ross: Mosquito, Malaria, India and the Nobel Prize – an untold story of the First Indian Nobel Laureate” is a unique book, incorporating fables unrecounted so far, and written in simple and lucid language.

K.P. Sanjayan • Series Editor: Anantanarayanan Raman

Insect Physiology(21st Century Biology and Agriculture: Textbook Series)

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Dr Ronald Ross:Mosquito, Malaria, India and The Nobel Prize — B.K. Tyagi

The present book deals with an unique group bacteria which occurs specialized ecological niches under harsh conditions. As a result they adapted special type of metabolism. The ecological adaptation and played by these microorganisms in the service of mankind are discussed in a precise way. It integrates knowledge of basic and applied aspects. It forms a good reading material for teaches and researchers.

Biology and Biotechnology of AnoxygenicPhototrophic Bacteria

K. Rajyalaxmi • S. Girisham • Dr. S.M. Reddy

ISBN: 9789388043731 • 300 Pages • 2020

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The Invincible Deadly Mosquitoes is a book with a difference, written in clear, simple and lucid language, and directed both at professional as well as amateur readership. The book is in fact a tribute to all those great entomologists and doctors, exemplified by a few chosen biographical sketches, who relentlessly worked arduously through all thick and thin to stem out the menace called mosquito. The dangers levied on humans by this tiny creature are too many, from irritating and painful bites to transmitting debilitating and deadly infections like malaria, filariasis, dengue, yellow fever and many types of encephalitides, many of which persistently occur in India. Mosquitoes, and the incapacitating diseases they transmit, have for long been considered to sap off individual's and the country's most vital resource, the blood, and, in the process, lend intellectual impoverishment on its people

The Invincible Deadly Mosquitoes — B. K. Tyagi

ISBN: 9789388043502 • 238 Pages • 2018

Science provides an inexorable support to both the human and the nations' development. The great scientists have always provided inspiration by their findings, philosophy, and understanding of the world around us. They have inspired generations of young explorers, eager to learn more about the world and motivated toward betterment with constant efforts in the quest for knowledge. The life of Professor Dr B. Kiauta, Emeritus Professor of Invertebrate Cytogenetics and Cytotaxonomy, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, President of Societas Internationalis Odonatologica (SIO) and the Executive Editor of Odonatologica, is an open book of assiduous perseverance, focused application and great mentorship. There are indeed many examples of great scientists, or for that matter - odonatologists, in the history of science, but there are certainly absolutely inevitably very few who by their energetic character not only practically educate the budding researchers in habits of industry, but by the example of diligence and perseverance which they set before them, largely influence the scientific activity in all directions and contribute in a great degree to form the national character, or more precisely, the world order! This book,

“Dr Bastiaan Kiauta: Odonatologist and Polymath – His Life, Works and Universe”, conveys a great lesson that nothing creditable can be accomplished without application and diligence.

Dr Bastiaan Kiauta:Odonatologist and Polymath His Life, Works And Universe — B. K. Tyagi

ISBN: 9789388043571 • 351 Pages • 2019

Human population is growing rapidly, disproportionate to food supply, which necessitate production of more volume of food in the near future. The reliance on insecticides for quick and dramatic results was not totally free from adverse effects. The book intends to fill the gap by providing a critical analysis of different management strategies that have a bearing on agriculture, sustainability, and environmental protection. This book emphasizes the management strategies with evaluation of each strategy in the bigger picture of ecologically driven pest management. The book includes 24 chapters, which cover ecological and biorational basis of pest management, integrated pest and disease management, crop breeding for resistance, use of entomopathogenic nematodes, remote sensing, biosecurity issues, risk to biodiversity by exotic species, new and emerging pests of horticultural crops, saffron and stored grains, the role of extension technologies in dissemination of IPM, and future challenges and strategies.

Technological Innovations in Integrated Pest ManagementBiorational and Ecological Perspective — D.P. Abrol

ISBN: 9788172335953 • 499 Pages • 2019

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This book shall serve as a reference book for students, teachers, and researchers and for all those interested in bees and beekeeping. This book will be useful to all those who wish to make beekeeping their hobby or as profession, entrepreneurs and even layman. Besides, the information provided in this book will be useful to pollination biologists, students, teachers, scientists of agriculture, animal behaviour, botany, conservation, biology, ecology, entomology, environmental biology, forestry, genetics, plant breeding, horticulture, toxicology, zoology, seed growers and seed agencies. It will be highly useful to motivate the young generation to fascinating world of honeybees and adopt beekeeping as a profession. Book as a guide for their problems & evolving strategies.

Beekeeping : A Compressive Guide to Bees and BeekeepingDharam P. Abrol

ISBN: 9788172336707 • 896 Pages • 2019

This book offer a plethora of environmentally benign alternatives to these chemical insecticides. It is hoped that the book will fill the wide gap in literature on utilization of biological and molecular approaches in biointensive IPM as an alternative to chemical insecticide based IPM for sustainable insect pest management in future.

Biological And Molecular Approachesin Pest Management

Balwinder Singh • Ramesh Arora • S.S. Gosal

ISBN: 9788172339234 • 429 Pages • 2015

Balwinder SinghRamesh Arora

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—— Emerging Crop Pest Problems: Redefining Management Strategies —— P.P. Reddy 3550—— Entomology Ecology & Biodiversity —— B.K. Tyagi 3550—— Entomology in the Doon Valley— B.K. Tyagi 2950—— Evolution of the Vertebrates 3rd Ed —— E.H. Colbert 2995—— Fundamentals of Agriculture 2nd Ed. (Vol. 1-2) (set) —— R.L. Arya 650—— Glimpse on General Agriculture— P. L. Rao 225—— Handbook of Insects Photographic Guide for Identification —— V.B. Awasthi 2250—— Handbook of Practical Nematology —— H.K. Bajaj 225—— Insect Biodiversity: Functional Dynamics and Ecological Perspectives —— T.N. Ananthakrishnan 2650—— Insect Mite and Vertebrate Pests and their Management in Horticultural Crops —— P.P. Reddy 430—— Insect Neuroendocrines —— V.B. Awasthi 3950—— Insect Pathology Text Book and Practical Manual —— N.K. Maru 275—— Insect Physiology (21st Century Biology and Agriculture: textbook series) — K.P. Sanjayan 550—— Insect Physiology —— V.B. Wigglesworth 1450—— Integrated Pest Management—A.K. Dhawan 750—— Integrated Plant Pathology—— S.M. Reddy 3250—— Introduction to General and Applied Entomology 3rd Ed —— V.B. Awasthi 440—— Introductory Biosystematics and Taxonomy —— M.M. Trigunayat 1250—— Introductory Insect Physiology—R.L. Patton 1550—— Introductory Plant Nematology — P.P. Reddy 295—— Management of Diseases and Insect-Pests of Important Vegetables —— S.K. Gupta 250—— Medical Entomology —— B.K. Tyagi 550—— Molecular Plant Nematology — Pankaj 2250—— Odonata Biology of Dragonflies— B.K. Tyagi 2950—— Organic Evolution —— B.L. Chaudhary 260—— Padap Parjeevi Sutrakrumi: Ek Mool Granth (Introductory Nematology) (Hindi) —— H.K. Bajaj 450—— Perspectives in Entomological Research —— O.P. Agrawal 2250—— Pest and Vector Management in the Tropics —— A. Youdeowei 575—— Pesticide Application Equipment for Use in Agriculture (Vol. 1) —— G.A. Matthews 1650—— Pesticide Application Equipment for Use in Agriculture (Vol. 2)—— G.A. Matthews 1650—— Pests and Pollinators of Vegetable and Oilseed Crops —— D.P. Abrol 2595—— Pests of Forest Importance and their Management —— B.K. Tyagi 2950

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Horticulture in India is fast emerging as a major commercial venture, because of higher remuneration per unit area and the realization that consumption of fruits and vegetables is essential for health and nutrition. In the last one decade, export potential of horticultural crops has significantly increased attracting even multinationals into floriculture, processing and value added products.Productivity of horticultural crops in India is relatively low compared to other countries. Of the several factors responsible for lower productivity of horticultural crops, pests (insect, mite and vertebrate pests) are considered as important limiting factors. The annual losses due to pests to all the crops in India was estimated at Rs. 60,000 million in 1983, which at today's prices could exceed Rs. 200,000 million.The information on pests (insect, mite and vertebrate pests) in horticultural crops is very much scattered. There is no such book at present which comprehensively and exclusively deals with the above aspects on horticultural crops. The present book deals with geographical distribution, damage, host range, biology, predisposing factors, and management of insect, mite and vertebrate pests in horticultural crops in detail

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Plant Protection in Horticulture (Vol. 1-3)

ISBN: 9788172336189 • 1100 Pages (SET) • 2018

The present book on “Crop Protection Strategies under Climate Change Scenarios” provides the information on i) effects of climate variables [increased temperatures, elevated carbon dioxide levels, varying precipitation patterns and frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events (drought, cyclones, floods, etc.), and elevated levels of atmospheric pollutants (ozone, acid rain, and elevated ultraviolet B) on crop pests; ii) Impacts of climate change induced consequences (expansion of geographical distribution, increase in number of generations, increased overwintering survival, pest population dynamics and outbreaks, risk of introducing invasive alien species, crop-pest interactions, loss of ecological biodiversity, changes in phenology, increased incidence of insect vectored plant diseases, disruption of plant-pollinator interactions, reduced effectiveness of pest management strategies) on crop pests; iii) Development of modelling approaches to predict future pest change scenarios; and iv) Formulation of sustainable adaptation and mitigation pest management strategies

including physical, cultural, chemical, biological, host resistance, and integrated methods under climate change scenarios. This book will be of immense value to scientific community involved in teaching, research and extension activities pertaining to pest management under climate change scenarios. The material in the book can be used for teaching post-graduate courses. The book can also serve as a very useful reference to policy makers and practicing farmers.

Crop Protection Strategies: Under Climate Change Scenarios — P. Parvatha Reddy

ISBN: 9789387307087 • 421 Pages • 2018

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CONTENTS: 1. Horticultural Crops • 2. Fruit Crops • 3. Vegetables Crops • 4. Ornamental Crops • 5. Medicinal Plants• 6. Aromatic Crops • 7. Tuber Crops • 8. Plantation Crops • 9. Spice Crops • Reference • Subject Index

Honeybees are amazing insects on earth which pollinate over 80% of all flowering plants including 70 of the top 100 human food crops. One third of total diet is directly or indirectly dependent on honeybee pollinated plants. It reflects that without bees people could struggle to sustain the global human population of 9 billion by 2050. Presently, we are losing bees' world-over at an alarming rate. If honeybee disappears from surface of the earth, we may loss all plants that bees pollinates, all of the animals that eat those plants and ultimately man would have no more than four years to live. Therefore, it is an urgent need to love these valuable mini-creatures, raise voice everywhere to protect them and enhance their population through beekeeping. Beekeeping is widely recognized economically sustainable occupation which offer an attractive avenues for livelihood, employment generation, holistic development of rural societies and survival of human through ensured food security. This book deals different issues of commercial beekeeping and provide scientific, authentic and very useful information on various aspects. The subject matter is presented in a comprehensive &

lucid style which make this book very useful. Moreover, international demand, import-export, market-outlook, producers & suppliers of value-added bee-hive products, role of different agencies in beekeeping development and model project reports appended add great values. This book, thus, has enormous scope and opportunities to address food & health security problems, upliftment of Farm-output, promotion of food industries and employment generation. This manuscript will also be more useful to assist Agri-business Planners, policy makers, Researchers, industrialists, teachers, students & farmers world-over who are interested in beekeeping-based commercial enterprises for their livelihood and income generation.

Commercial Beekeeping — Dharm Singh

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This book gives a comprehensive account of all aspects of plant nematology and should be of profound help to the students, teachers, researchers and extension workers alike. The syllabus of ARS Net – Nematology has also been fully covered in this book. Hence, persons appearing for ARS Net – Nematology can also refer this book.The book is divided into eight sections. The first section describes the importance of nematodes in agriculture, presents a historical review, nematode as biological models, entomopathogenic nematodes, and lists the professional societies and their publications.Information on the nematological techniques is outlined in section two.The morphology of nematodes is described and presented in clear schematic drawings in section three. The taxonomic classification along with keys for identification of nematodes up to generic level is provided. In section four, the biology, physiology and ecology of nematodes are described.The host-parasite

interactions and symptoms on aerial and under-ground infestation by different nematodes are described and depicted in many photographs in section five. In section six, the interrelationships between nematodes and fungi, bacteria and viruses are discussed.Management of nematode diseases by host resistance and by suppression of nematode population through regulatory, physical, cultural, chemical, biological, and integrated methods have been presented in section seven.The last section of the book discusses the most important nematode induced diseases of horticultural, plantation and spices, commercial and field crops and their management.

P. Parvatha Reddy

Introductory Plant Nematology

ISBN: 9789387893917 • 412 Pages • 2019