Guide ​to Killing Roaches How ​to Quickly Get Rid of and Repel Roaches in Your Home for Good

Steven Barney - Orin McMonigle - The ​Complete Guide to Rearing the Rainbow Scarab and Other Dung Beetles
This ​guide to dung beetle husbandry is the sixth in the complete guide to rearing beetles series. The text covers background, captive husbandry, trapping and collecting, food and bait, other dung beetle species, and behavior with concentration on the beautiful Phanaeus vindex (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae).

Ismeretlen szerző - Desert ​Plants
Deserts ​appear very fascinating during our short visits. However, the lives of plants and animals are very dif?cult under the harsh climatic conditions of high tempe- ture and scant water supply in deserts, sometimes associated with high concent- tions of salt. The editor of this book was born and brought up in the Great Indian Desert, and has spent much of his life studying the growth and metabolism of desert plants. It is very charming on a cool summer evening to sit at the top of a sand dune listening only to blowing air and nothing else. It has been my dream to prepare a volume on desert plants encompassing various aspects of desert plant biology. In this book, I have tried to present functional and useful aspects of the vegetation resources of deserts along with scienti?c input aimed at understanding and impr- ing the utility of these plants. The scant vegetation of deserts supports animal life and provides many useful medicines, timber and fuel wood for humans. Therefore, there are chapters devoted to medicinal plants (Chap. 1), halophytes (Chaps. 13, 14), and fruit plants (Chaps. 17, 20). Desert plants have a unique reproductive biology (Chaps. 9–11), well-adapted eco-physiological and anatomical charact- istics (Chap. 7), and specialised metabolism and survival abilities. These plants are dif?cult to propagate and pose many problems to researchers developing biote- nological approaches for their amelioration (Chaps. 18–20).

Mosharrof Hossain - Growth ​and Development of Lesser Mealworm Alphitobius diaperinus
Food ​constitutes an important factor which influences an insect’s chance to survive and multiply by modifying its fecundity, longevity or the speed of development. In recent years much attention has been focussed on the control of insect pests through nutritional regulations. A. diaperinus lays eggs over a long time, belonging to the second group of four types of egg lying in Coleoptera. There appears to have been no published information on the effect of the pulses, red lentil, gram, khesari and black gram on the fecundity and fertility of A. diaperinus.

Bálint Zsolt - Gubányi András - Pitter Gábor - Magyarország ​védett pillangóalakú lepkéinek katalógusa
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

Agócs József - Molnár Géza - Erdőéltetés
A ​különböző elméleti tudományágak erdővel kapcsolatos kutatási részeredményeinek szintéziséből, vagyis a bioszférabiológiai, ezen belül erdőbiológiai ismeretekből egyértelműen következik, hogy erdeink a fatermesztési célú kezelések következtében éppúgy elpusztulnak, ha lassabban is, mint a hajdan búzatermesztésre, legeltetésre, városépítésre kijelölt területek erdei. Az is egyértelműen mutatkozik az erdők, a földi Élet tartós létezési feltételeinek következetes számbavételéből, hogy a Bioszféra határain kívüli, tehát külső környezeti változások, eredményeként a földi Élet végveszélybe került, s a veszélyeket csak különleges képességű populációk segítségével lehet elhárítani. Ilyen különleges képességekkel éppen az ember rendelkezik, csak ezeket a képességeinket eddig nem a Bioszféra erősítésére, gazdagítására, többek között az erdők éltetésére vetettük be, hanem ellenükre: gyengítésükre, szegényítésükre, élettelenítésükre, megsemmisítésükre. A veszélyek elhárításához szükséges erdő-éltető, vagy erdő-regeneráló, erdőfenntartó szakma is szintézis eredménye, hiszen az erdészet, a vadászat, a vízrendezés, a halászat, a gombászat, a gyümölcstermesztés, stb. technológiarészleteinek az ötvözetét jelenti Szintézis azért is, mert ez a szakma nemcsak a mai technológiákból állt vagy állhat össze, hanem a régiekből, a már elfelejtettekből, meg a még ezután kikísérletezendőkből is. Az erdőéltetés a szakmai célokon és feladatokon kívül oktatási, átképzési, nevelési feladat is, mégpedig megfelelő szintetikus intézményrendszer keretein belül. Ennek a tanulmánykötetnek az a célja, hogy fölhívja a figyelmet: 1.) erdeink területi és szerkezeti regenerációjának szükségességére is, lehetőségeire is; 2.) arra, hogy az erdeink létét fenyegető veszélyek, amelyek eredendően külső környezetiek, de közvetlenül és most emberiek és erdészetiek, nem tűnnek el attól, hogy a velük kapcsolatos kutatási eredményeket a hivatalos fórumok elhallgatják; 3.) ma talán még a siker reményében kezdhetnénk neki az erdő-éltetésnek, de ennek a reménynek napról napra kisebb az esélye; 4.) nem várhatjuk, hogy a politikusok maguktól tűzik ki az új célt, a tartós létezési feltételeknek megfelelő erdőállapot elérését az erdészek, s a társadalom minden tagja számára, ezért ezt nekünk kell kiharcolnunk; 5.) elsősorban az erdészeké a felelősség azért is, mert az ő kezükben, az ő felügyeletük alatt vannak erdeink, nekik kell példát mutatniuk a kutatási eredmények tudomásul vételéből és bevezetésében, az erdők érdekében megnyilvánuló különböző természetvédelmi, társadalmi, mezőgazdasági, stb. kezdeményezések segítésében, összehangolásában.

Szpivakovszkij - A ​gyümölcsösök trágyázása
Micsurin ​álma az volt, hogy hazája területét virágzó kertek borítsák. A szovjet föld nagy fiának álma drága minden hazáját szerető embernek, mindazoknak, akik megértik, hogy milyen nagy jelentősége van a gyümölcstermelésnek a népgazdaságban és a dolgozók egészségvédelmében. A gyümölcs óriási étrendi szerepe a lakosság táplálkozásában és a gyümölcsösök egészségvédelmi szerepe, védő és díszítő jellege a gyümölcstermelést a szocialista mezőgazdaság legfontosabb ágai sorába emelik. A Szovjetunióban a Nagy Októberi Szocialista Forradalom előtt a gyümölcstermelés nagyon fejletlen volt. A Nagy Októberi Szocialista Forradalom után, különösen a sztálini ötéves tervek alatt, a gyümölcsösökkel beültetett terület igen jelentősen megnőtt és 194l-re elérte az 1 400 000 ha-t. De nem ez, nem a gyümölcstermelés mennyiségi növekedése a legfontosabb. Döntő jelentőségű az, hogy a Szovjetunió gyümölcstermelése ez alatt az idő alatt minőségében változott meg. Az elaprózott, keveset termelő kertecskék nagyrészt fogyasztói jellegűek voltak és főként a drága, kézi munkára alapozott, elavult technikájú ápolásban részesültek. Helyettük árutermelő nagyüzemi gyümölcsösöket létesítettek a kolhozokban és szovhozokban. Gondozásuk tudományos alapon nyugszik és javarészt gépi erővel történik. Emellett ne feledkezzünk meg arról sem, hogy a Szovjetunió gyümölcstermelésének „természetes" földrajzi határai is megváltoztak. A gyümölcsfák rövid idő alatt messze északra nyomultak: á Szovjetunió európai' részének északi vidékeire, az Uraiba és Szibériába, ahol azelőtt gyümölcsösök nem voltak. Néhány fejlett gyümölcstermelő vidék ideiglenes megszállása a német fasiszta hadsereg által, valamint a rendkívül erős fagyok -1939/40 és 1941/42 telén óriási kárt okoztak a szovjet gyümölcstermelésnek. A háború után azonban a gyümölcstermelés. gyorsan kiheverte a sebeket és hatalmas fejlődésnek indult. Ez annak köszönhető, hogy a szovjet kormány a népgazdaság fejlesztésének ügyét állandóan szívén viselte, továbbá annak a rendkívül nagy segítségnek, amelyet a kolhozoknak és a szovhozoknak nyújtott és nyújt. A gyümölcstermelésnek a párt és a .kormány határozataiban előirányzott további fejlesztése azzal kapcsolatos, hogy a kolhozok és a szovhozok elsajátították az élenjáró szovjet agrobiológiai tudomány vívmányait - Micsurin tanát a növények természetének irányításáról, összekapcsolva Viljamsznak a talaj termőképessége irányításáról szóló tanításával.

Ismeretlen szerző - Nourishment ​and Evolution in Insect Societies
This ​book examines the structure and function of insect societies from a nutritional perspective in order to foster a fuller understanding of how their social systems evolved. With contributions by 15 international experts, the book spans a full range of taxonomic diversity and summarizes past and current thought, combining it with new analyses and suggesting new directions for research. The volume will be of great interest to biologists concentrating in social evolution as well as entomologists studying social insects.

D. Prasad - Insect ​Pest and Disease Management
Of ​late, frequent application and large scale use of pesticides for control of pests led to the endangerment of agro-ecosystem. Indiscriminate use of insecticides resulted in the destruction of parasitoids and predators of the pests and ultimately led to the resistance of pests to insecticides and insect resurgence. In the light of these problems, considerable research has been devoted to the elucidation of the toxic residues in/on consumable produce. Considering the seriousness insecticidal problems, there is an urgent need for developing effective economically viable and environmentally safe pest management system. Exploitation of bioagents, biogesticides, biointensive integrated pest management and need base use of pesticides have greater role and scope in overall insect pest and disease management. The publication this book is timely and appropriate for the plant protectionists. There are 41 thought provoking chapters on entomology, plant pathology, nematology and weed science written by the scientists who are experts in their subject. The book is an asset for the policy makers, administrators, teachers, research workers and students who may be referring the literature time to time.

John L. Capinera - Insects ​and Wildlife
Insects ​and Wildlife: Arthropods and their Relationships with Wild Vertebrate Animals provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelationships of insects and wildlife. It serves as an introduction to insects and other arthropods for wildlife management and other vertebrate biology students, and emphasizes the importance of insects to wild vertebrate animals. The book emphasizes how insects exert important influences on wildlife habitat suitability and wildlife population sustainability, including their direct and indirect effects on wildlife health. Among the important topics covered are: the importance of insects as food items for vertebrate animals; the role of arthropods as determinants of ecosystem health and productivity; the ability of arthropods to transmit disease-causing agents; an overview of representative disease-causing agents transmitted by arthropods; arthropods as pests and parasites of vertebrates; the hazards to wildlife associated with using using pesticides to protect against insect damage; insect management using techniques other than pesticides; the importance of insect conservation and how insects influence wildlife conservation.

Milan Zúbrik - Andrej Kunca - György Csóka - Insects ​and Diseases Damaging Trees and Shrubs of Europe
A ​comprehensive atlas to the world of insects and diseases damaging trees and shrubs in Europe. Illustrated by over 4,300 unique colour photographs, showing more than 1,100 species of insects and diseases causing damage to tree species and shrubs in Europe. Several prominent forest protection experts joined together to create this book: a comprehensive atlas to the world of insects and diseases damaging trees and shrubs in Europe. Easy to use, pests are arranged according to the tree species on which they occur. They appear under their scientific name; common English name. The pest's life cycle, description of the life stages, significance and distribution are briefly mentioned. Symbols make finding your way around the Atlas easy. Unique pictures. Illustrated by over 4,300 unique colour photographs, showing more than 1,100 species of insects and diseases causing damage to tree species and shrubs in Europe. Excellent information source. This book compiles a remarkable amount of essential information for specialists, professional practitioners or students in Forestry and Parks and Gardens Management. More generally, the work will also be instructive and useful for anyone keen on the natural environment, trees and gardening who would like to know the causes of damage to trees and shrubs.

Stephen C. Meyer - Darwin's ​Doubt
When ​Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life—a mystery that has intensified, not only because the expected ancestors of these animals have not been found, but because scientists have learned more about what it takes to construct an animal. During the last half century, biologists have come to appreciate the central importance of biological information—stored in DNA and elsewhere in cells—to building animal forms. Expanding on the compelling case he presented in his last book, Signature in the Cell, Meyer argues that the origin of this information, as well as other mysterious features of the Cambrian event, are best explained by intelligent design, rather than purely undirected evolutionary processes.

Peter Enns - The ​Evolution of Adam
The ​widely-held evolutionary view of beginnings doesn't allow for a historical Adam. This book helps Christians reconcile the teachings of the Bible and evolution.

Alan Graham - A ​Natural History of the New World
The ​paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the most extraordinary vegetation on the planet. But until now it has lacked a complete natural history. Alan Graham remedies that with A Natural History of the New World. With plants as his scientific muse, Graham traces the evolution of ecosystems, beginning in the Late Cretaceous period (about 100 million years ago) and ending in the present, charting their responses to changes in geology and climate. By highlighting plant communities’ roles in the environmental history of the Americas, Graham offers an overdue balance to natural histories that focus exclusively on animals. Plants are important in evolution’s splendid drama. Not only are they conspicuous and conveniently stationary components of the Earth’s ecosystems, but their extensive fossil record allows for a thorough reconstruction of the planet’s paleoenvironments. What’s more, plants provide oxygen, function as food and fuel, and provide habitat and shelter; in short, theirs is a history that can speak to many other areas of evolution. A Natural History of the New World is an ambitious and unprecedented synthesis written by one of the world’s leading scholars of botany and geology.

Philip Hoare - The ​Whale - In Search of the Giants of the Sea
Starred ​Review. A young boy's first glimpse of a whale in captivity matures into a writer's paean to the giants of the deep in this poetic blend of nautical history, literary allusion, personal experience, and natural science by British biographer Hoare (Noël Coward). With Melville as his mentor and Ishmael as his muse, the author haunts one-time whaling town New Bedford, Mass., America's richest city in the mid–19th century thanks to whale oil and baleen (whalebone); recreates the cramped life on board the whalers of 200 years ago; weaves writing about whales by Emerson and Poe into his narrative; and finally revels in face-to-fin encounters with his obsession, swimming with the whales in the Atlantic. Though Hoare rhapsodizes most about the fabled sperm whale, the world's largest predator with a history dating back 23 million years, he also describes with succinct precision other species—the beaked, blue, fin, humpback, and the killer whale, the sperm whale's only nonhuman predator. This tour de force is a sensuous biography of the great mammals that range on and under Earth's oceans.

Brian W. Ogilvie - The Science of Describing
Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. Drawing on published natural histories, manuscript correspondence, garden plans, travelogues, watercolors, and drawings, The Science of Describing reconstructs the evolution of this discipline of description through four generations of naturalists. In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, naturalists focused on understanding ancient and medieval descriptions of the natural world, but by the mid-sixteenth century naturalists turned toward distinguishing and cataloguing new plant and animal species. To do so, they developed new techniques of observing and recording, created botanical gardens and herbaria, and exchanged correspondence and specimens within an international community. By the early seventeenth century, naturalists began the daunting task of sorting through the wealth of information they had accumulated, putting a new emphasis on taxonomy and classification. Illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, and photographs, The Science of Describing is the first broad interpretation of Renaissance natural history in more than a generation and will appeal widely to an interdisciplinary audience.

Ramesh Arora - Balwinder Singh - A. K. Dhawan - Theory ​and Practice of Integrated Pest Management
The ​dominance of insects in the world fauna has made them the humanity's greatest rival for the world's food resources, both directly by eating the plants cultivated for food and indirectly as vectors of pathogens attacking these plants. Agricultural scientists and especially entomologists have strived hard to develop a diversity of cultural, mechanical, biological and chemical weapons during the last more than two centuries to gain dominance over insects. However, there is evidence that insect pest problems have escalated with an increasing cropping intensity and with the use of agrochemicals inherent in modern agriculture. Consequently, Indian plant protection scientists have intensified research on the development of pest management tactics and effective pest management systems have been designed for all the important crops in the country. This book, consisting of 29 chapters, draws together the diverse literature on the subject of insect pest management in agriculture and contains contributions written by scientists having extensive experience with insect pest problems in Indian agriculture. The first half of the book is devoted to the principles and components of pest management including factors affecting pest populations, construction of life tables, coevolution of insects and plants, pest forecasting, pesticides, IGRs, botanicals, entomopathogenic nematodes and molecular approaches, etc. The different tactics for the management of major insect pests of principal agricultural crops of India, viz. rice, maize, wheat, forage crops, cotton, sugarcane, vegetables, fruits, oilseeds, pulse crops, jute, mesta and tobacco have been discussed in the second half of the book. The book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of insect pest management in agriculture under Indian conditions and would prove indispensable for students, teachers and researchers in agricultural entomology in India and other Asian countries.

Alan R. Rogers - The ​Evidence for Evolution
According ​to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it’s no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today’s biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution—natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow—but say little about the evidence that evolution happens at all. How do we know that species change? Has there really been enough time for evolution to operate? With The Evidence for Evolution, Alan R. Rogers provides an elegant, straightforward text that details the evidence for evolution. Rogers covers different levels of evolution, from within-species changes, which are much less challenging to see and believe, to much larger ones, say, from fish to amphibian, or from land mammal to whale. For each case, he supplies numerous lines of evidence to illustrate the changes, including fossils, DNA, and radioactive isotopes. His comprehensive treatment stresses recent advances in knowledge but also recounts the give and take between skeptical scientists who first asked “how can we be sure” and then marshaled scientific evidence to attain certainty. The Evidence for Evolution is a valuable addition to the literature on evolution and will be essential to introductory courses in the life sciences.

Richard Dawkins - The ​God Delusion
Discover ​magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly. Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of "intelligent design," or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East—or Middle America.

J. G. M. "Hans" Thewissen - The ​Walking Whales
Hans ​Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled tiny deer to carnivorous monsters stalking lakes and rivers and to serpentlike denizens of the coast. Thewissen reports on his discoveries in the wilds of India and Pakistan, weaving a narrative that reveals the day-to-day adventures of fossil collection, enriching it with local flavors from South Asian culture and society. The reader senses the excitement of the digs as well as the rigors faced by scientific researchers, for whom each new insight gives rise to even more questions, and for whom at times the logistics of just staying alive may trump all science. In his search for an understanding of how modern whales live their lives, Thewissen also journeys to Japan and Alaska to study whales and wild dolphins. He finds answers to his questions about fossils by studying the anatomy of otters and porpoises and examining whale embryos under the microscope. In the book's final chapter, Thewissen argues for approaching whale evolution with the most powerful tools we have and for combining all the fields of science in pursuit of knowledge.

Anders Winroth - The ​Age of the Vikings
The ​Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidence, Anders Winroth captures the innovation and pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only explains the Viking attacks, but also looks at Viking endeavors in commerce, politics, discovery, and colonization, and reveals how Viking arts, literature, and religious thought evolved in ways unequaled in the rest of Europe. The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the complex society, culture, and legacy of these legendary seafarers.