Urban Insect Pests: Sustainable Management Strategies

Editor:Partho Dhang (Ed.) 2014. Hardback 249 pages. CABI International 2014. ISBN-13:978-1-78064-275-8

With 15 chapters and 21 contributing authors, this book is a completely current review of best pest management strategies with, in addition to the expected chapters on headline pests such as bedbugs, also considers among other chapter titles, ants, termites, mosquitoes, filth flies, fleas, and timber beetles. Written by experts in their field, from the US, Europe, Australia and South East Asia, the book highlights how urban insects, like any other insects, are resilient and successful organisms in the natural world. Only a lack of understanding leaves them considered intruders in the urban environment. As the approach by the pest control industry seems to revolve around pest control products, the practice of controlling urban pests becomes centred on elimination of infestations from homes and buildings without properly addressing the possibilities of future infestations and how to avoid them.

This book brings together global knowledge to discuss, not just the pests but the importance of new technologies, improved designs, modification of environments and public awareness. This is very much a partner publication to the earlier 2011 publication, Urban Pest Management, An Environmental Perspective (P Dhang Ed.).

The new publication emphasizes that pests in urban environment cannot be permanently eradicated. Thus there is a need to develop sustainable methodologies to contain pest. With increasing restrictions on how and where pesticides can be applied and a decreasing armoury of products being made available to today’s pest control professional Urban Insect Pests reviews best practice methods, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and how public awareness can help in reducing pest infestation sustainably.

This book will serve as valuable resource for pest control specialists and researchers alike in the field of entomology and urban pest control.

Published in International Pest Control – November/December 2014 issue.

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