Insects That Feed on Trees and Shrubs: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600 (Comstock Book)

Insects That Feed on Trees and Shrubs: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600 (Comstock Book)

Warren T. Johnson, Howard H. Lyon
$99.95
Publication Date: July 15th, 1991
Publisher:
Comstock Publishing
ISBN:
9780801426025
Pages:
560

Description

This comprehensive handbook, acclaimed when it was first published in 1976 as "one of the most useful reference manuals on diagnostic entomology yet produced," has now been completely revised and expanded to reflect recent advances in technology and the wealth of new information affecting the "Green Industry."Augmented by 241 full-color plates, it gives the essential facts about more than 900 species of insects, mites, and other animals that injure woody ornamental plants in the United States and Canada, and provides means of quick visual identification of both the pests and the damage they cause.

About the Author

Warren T. Johnson was Professor of Entomology Emeritus at Cornell University. A graduate of Morris Harvey College, now part of the University of Charleston, he received his M.S. degree from The Ohio State University and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland. With Wayne A. Sinclair and Howard H. Lyon, he authored Diseases of Trees and Shrubs.Howard H. Lyon is Biological Photographer (ret.), Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University. His education includes a B.S. degree from the University of Vermont and graduate studies in plant pathology at Cornell University. He is the author, with Wayne A. Sinclair and Warren T. Johnson, of Diseases of Trees and Shrubs.

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