Publisher's Synopsis
This text brings together all the available information on the role of insects, mites and ticks, and how they affect livestock and poultry production. Methods and materials for pest control are reviewed, as is experimental progress made in the rearing procedures for some relevant species.;The subject species are treated from the standpoint of their economic damage to the host animal and, ultimately, with regard to their impact on humans at the point where the effect of pest activity adversely affects the balance of human nutritional requirements for animal protein. Methods and materials for pest control are reviewed, as is experimental progress made in the rearing procedures for such species as the tsetse fly. Other areas covered are, host immunity reactions, and the importance of host resistance to boophilus tick and trypano-tolerance in relation to the tsetse fly. The use of combinations of drug treatment, host immunity and management of animal exposure to attack illustrates integrated pest management (IPM).
