Ecofriendly pest management for food security / edited by Omkar, Centre of Excellence in Biocontrol of Insect Pests, Ladybird Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Insects and pests / T.P. Rajendran and Devendra Singh -- Biocontrol of insect pests / Omkar, and Bhupendra Kumar -- Aphids and their biocontrol / Rajendra Singh and Garima Singh -- Parasitoids / M. Kalyanasundaram and I. Merlin Kamala -- Trichogrammatids / S.K. Jalali, Prashanth Mohanrah, and B.L. Lakshmi -- Anthocorid predators / Chandish R. Ballal and Kazutaka Yamada -- Reduviid predators / Dunston P. Ambrose and A. Ganesh Kumar -- Syrphid flies (the hovering agents) / Omkar, and Geetanjali Mishra -- Ladybird beetles / Omkar, and Ahmad Pervez -- Chrysopids / N. Dhandapani, Pallavi Sarkar, and Geetanjali Mishra -- Mite predators / Yaghoub Fathipour and Bahador Maleknia -- Entomopathogenic nematodes / S. Subramanian and M. Muthulakshmi -- Insect viruses / Vivek Prasad and Shalini Srivastava -- Bacillus thuringiensis / G. Keshavareddy and A.R.V. Kumar -- Entomopathogenic fungi / Kaushal K. Sinha, Ajoy Kr. Choudhary, and Priyanka Kumari -- Plant monoterpenoids (prospective pesticides) / Arun K. Tripathi and Shikha Mishra -- Antifeedant phytochemicals in insect management (so close yet so far) / Opender Koul -- Neem products / Rashmi Roychoudhury -- Semiochemicals / N. Bakthavatsalam -- Insect hormones (as pesticides) / S. Subramanian and K. Shankarganesh -- Integrated pest management / P. Karuppuchamy and Sheela Venugopal -- Biotechnological approaches / Arun K. Tripathi and Shikha Mishra -- GMO and food security / Mala Trivedi, Rachana Singh, Manish Shukla, and Rajesh K. Tiwari.

"Ecofriendly Pest Management for Food Security explores the broad range of opportunities and challenges afforded by integrated pest management (IPM) systems."-- Page 4 of cover.

Omkar, Ed. (2016). Ecofriendly pest management for food security. Amsterdam : Elsevier.