Background
Flint, Mary Louise was born on May 21, 1949 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Daughter of John Barlow and Gyda (Sheppard) Flint. came to the United States, 1953.
(Featuring more than 250 color photographs of pests and cr...)
Featuring more than 250 color photographs of pests and crops, and more than 100 drawings, this book, with its authoritative text, enables you to identify pests quickly--and to prevent, correct, or live with most common pest problems. Crop tables at the end of the book describe major pests on 30 vegetable and fruit tree crops and refer you to specific pages for more detail. The book's approach minimizes the use of broad spectrum pesticides, relying primarily on alternatives such as: biological control; resistant varieties; traps and barriers; less toxic pesticides such as soaps, oils, and microbials; changing planting, irrigation, or cultivating procedures; and other preventive measures. Includes: landscape designs that prevent pests; planting, irrigating, other plant care activities that prevent potential problems; resistant varieties; biological controls (use of parasites, predators, or pathogens); less-toxic pesticides such as soaps, oil, and microbials; mulches and other physical and mechanical controls; references, suppliers list, and glossary.Now in an extensively revised new edition, the highly successful Pests of the Garden and Small Farm adapts scientifically based integrated pest management techniques to the needs of the home gardener and small-scale farmer.
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(Integrated control of pests was practiced early in this c...)
Integrated control of pests was practiced early in this century, well before anyone thought to call it "integrated control" or, still later, "integrated pest management" (IPM), which is the subject of this book by Mary Louise Flint and the late Robert van den Bosch. USDA entomologists W. D. Hunter and B. R. Coad recommended the same principles in 1923, for example, for the control of boll weevil on cotton in the United States. In that program, selected pest-tolerant varieties of cotton and residue destruction were the primary means of control, with insecticides consid ered supplementary and to be used only when a measured incidence of weevil damage occurred. Likewise, plant pathologists had also developed disease management programs incorporating varietal selection and cul tural procedures, along with minimal use of the early fungicides, such as Bordeaux mixture. These and other methods were practiced well before modern chemical control technology had developed. Use of chemical pesticides expanded greatly in this century, at first slowly and then, following the launching of DDT as a broadly successful insecticide, with rapidly increasing momentum. In 1979, the President's Council on Environmental Quality reported that production of synthetic organic pesticides had increased from less than half a million pounds in 1951 to about 1.4 billion pounds-or about 3000 times as much-in 1977.
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( Featuring more than 250 color photographs of pests and ...)
Featuring more than 250 color photographs of pests and crops, and more than 100 drawings, this book, with its authoritative text, enables you to identify pests quickly—and to prevent, correct, or live with most common pest problems. Crop tables at the end of the book describe major pests on 30 vegetable and fruit tree crops and refer you to specific pages for more detail. The book's approach minimizes the use of broad spectrum pesticides, relying primarily on alternatives such as: biological control; resistant varieties; traps and barriers; less toxic pesticides such as soaps, oils, and microbials; changing planting, irrigation, or cultivating procedures; and other preventive measures. Includes: landscape designs that prevent pests; planting, irrigating, other plant care activities that prevent potential problems; resistant varieties; biological controls (use of parasites, predators, or pathogens); less-toxic pesticides such as soaps, oil, and microbials; mulches and other physical and mechanical controls; references, suppliers list, and glossary.Now in an extensively revised new edition, the highly successful Pests of the Garden and Small Farm adapts scientifically based integrated pest management techniques to the needs of the home gardener and small-scale farmer.
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Flint, Mary Louise was born on May 21, 1949 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Daughter of John Barlow and Gyda (Sheppard) Flint. came to the United States, 1953.
Bachelor of Science, University of California, Davis, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1979.
Assistant director, Environmental Assessment Team, California Federal Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, 1977-1979; extension entomologist, University of California, Davis, since 1980; director Integrated Pest Management Edition and Publications, University of California, Davis, since 1980. Technical committee member Statewide Integrated Pest Management Project University of California, Davis, since 1983, Sustainable Agriculture Program, 1988-1992. Member policy advising committee California Agriculture, Oakland, California, since 1991.
(Integrated control of pests was practiced early in this c...)
(Featuring more than 250 color photographs of pests and cr...)
( Featuring more than 250 color photographs of pests and ...)
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Entomological Society American, Association Applied Insect Ecologists.
Married Stephen James Meyer, April 3, 1982. Children: Nicholas Flint, William Flint.