Arthropod Management in Vineyards Pests, Approaches, and Future Directions [Hardcover]

Provides a state-of-the-science overview of arthropods affecting grape production around the world. Vineyard pest management is a dynamic and evolving field, and the contributed chapters provide insights into arthropods that limit this important crop and its products. Written by international experts from the major grape-growing regions, it provides a global overview of arthropods affecting vines and the novel strategies being used to prevent economic losses, including invasive pests affecting viticulture. The book contains reviews of the theoretical basis of integrated pest management, multiple chapters on biological control, current status of chemical control, as well as in-depth and well-illustrated reviews of the major arthropod pests affecting grape production and how they are being managed worldwide. This text will serve as a primary resource for applied entomologists, students, growers, and consultants with interests at the intersection of viticulture and applied entomology.

In this volume, the only such resource with a worldwide scope, international experts cover the main insect and mite pests of viticulture and review current pest management practices as well as proposing a range of new directions for future research.

Foreword.- Preface.- 1. Principles of Arthropod Pest Management in Vineyards.- Charles Vincent, Rufus Isaacs, Noubar J. Bostanian and Jacques Lasnier.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The vine.- 1.3 Arthropod biodiversity in vineyards.- 1.4 Arthropod pests.- 1.5 New arthropod issues.- 1.6 The foundation of IPM: sampling, thresholds, and modeling.- 1.7 Alternatives to chemical control.- 1.8 Semiochemicals.- 1.9 Chemical control.- 1.10 Regulations.- 1.11 IPM in organic viticulture.- 1.12 IPM program delivery.- 1.13 Challenges.- 1.14 Conclusion.- 2. Pest Thresholds: their Development and Use in Vineyards for Arthropod Management.- Rufus Isaacs, Michael C. Saunders and Noubar J. Bostal.