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Garden insects of North America
Garden Insects of North Americais the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the common insects and mites affecting yard and garden plants in North America. In a manner no previous book has come close to achieving, through full-color photos and concise, clear, scientifically accurate text, it describes the vast majority of species associated with shade trees and shrubs, turfgrass, flowers and ornamental plants, vegetables, and fruits--1,420 of them, including crickets, katydids, fruit flies, mealybugs, moths, maggots, borers, aphids, ants, bees, and many, many more. For particularly abundant bugs adept at damaging garden plants, management tips are also included. Covering all of the continental United States and Canada, this is the definitive one-volume resource for amateur gardeners, insect lovers, and professional entomologists alike.
To ease identification, the book is organized by plant area affected (e.g., foliage, flowers, stems) and within that, by taxa. Close to a third of the species are primarily leaf chewers, with about the same number of sap suckers. Multiple photos of various life stages and typical plant symptoms are included for key species. The text, on the facing page, provides basic information on host plants, characteristic damage caused to plants, distribution, life history, habits, and, where necessary, how to keep \"pests\" in check--in short, the essentials to better understanding, appreciating, and tolerating these creatures.
Whether managing, studying, or simply observing insects, identification is the first step--and this book is the key. With it in hand, the marvelous microcosm right outside the house finally comes fully into view.
Describes more than 1,400 species--twice as many as in any other field guideFull-color photos for most species--more than five times the number in most comparable guidesUp-to-date pest management tipsOrganized by plant area affected and by taxa for easy identificationCovers the continental United States and CanadaProvides species level treatment of all insects and mites important to gardensIllustrates all life stages of key garden insects and commonly associated plant injuriesConcise, clear, scientifically accurate textComprehensive and user-friendly
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YOLOv8n-WSE-Pest: A Lightweight Deep Learning Model Based on YOLOv8n for Pest Identification in Tea Gardens
China’s Yunnan Province, known for its tea plantations, faces significant challenges in smart pest management due to its ecologically intricate environment. To enable the intelligent monitoring of pests within tea plantations, this study introduces a novel image recognition algorithm, designated as YOLOv8n-WSE-pest. Taking into account the pest image data collected from organic tea gardens in Yunnan, this study utilizes the YOLOv8n network as a foundation and optimizes the original loss function using WIoU-v3 to achieve dynamic gradient allocation and improve the prediction accuracy. The addition of the Spatial and Channel Reconstruction Convolution structure in the Backbone layer reduces redundant spatial and channel features, thereby reducing the model’s complexity. The integration of the Efficient Multi-Scale Attention Module with Cross-Spatial Learning enables the model to have more flexible global attention. The research results demonstrate that compared to the original YOLOv8n model, the improved YOLOv8n-WSE-pest model shows increases in the precision, recall, mAP50, and F1 score by 3.12%, 5.65%, 2.18%, and 4.43%, respectively. In external validation, the mAP of the model outperforms other deep learning networks such as Faster-RCNN, SSD, and the original YOLOv8n, with improvements of 14.34%, 8.85%, and 2.18%, respectively. In summary, the intelligent tea garden pest identification model proposed in this study excels at precise the detection of key pests in tea plantations, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of pest management through the application of advanced techniques in applied science.
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Tracing the Invasion of the Mediterranean Land Snail Cornu aspersum aspersum Becoming an Agricultural and Garden Pest in Areas Recently Introduced
Compares the spatial structure and genetic variability of invasive (America, Oceania (New Zealand), South Africa) versus native populations of the 'Brown Snail' using five microsatellite loci and mitochondrial (Cytb and 16S rRNA) genes as a first step towards (i) the detection of potential source populations, and (ii) a better understanding of mechanisms governing evolutionary changes involved in the invasion process. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Moth and wasp, soil and ocean : remembering Chinese scientist Pu Zhelong's work for sustainable farming
Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean tells its story through the memories of a farm boy who, inspired by Pu Zhelong, became a scientist himself.
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Garden insects of North America : the ultimate guide to backyard bugs
Garden Insects of North America is the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the common insects and mites affecting yard and garden plants in North America. In a manner no previous book has come close to achieving, through full-color photos and concise, clear, scientifically accurate text, it describes the vast majority of species associated with shade trees and shrubs, turfgrass, flowers and ornamental plants, vegetables, and fruits--1,420 of them, including crickets, katydids, fruit flies, mealybugs, moths, maggots, borers, aphids, ants, bees, and many, many more. For particularly abundant bugs adept at damaging garden plants, management tips are also included. Covering all of the continental United States and Canada, this is the definitive one-volume resource for amateur gardeners, insect lovers, and professional entomologists alike. To ease identification, the book is organized by plant area affected (e.g., foliage, flowers, stems) and within that, by taxa. Close to a third of the species are primarily leaf chewers, with about the same number of sap suckers. Multiple photos of various life stages and typical plant symptoms are included for key species. The text, on the facing page, provides basic information on host plants, characteristic damage caused to plants, distribution, life history, habits, and, where necessary, how to keep \"pests\" in check--in short, the essentials to better understanding, appreciating, and tolerating these creatures. Whether managing, studying, or simply observing insects, identification is the first step--and this book is the key. With it in hand, the marvelous microcosm right outside the house finally comes fully into view. Describes more than 1,400 species--twice as many as in any other field guide Full-color photos for most species--more than five times the number in most comparable guides Up-to-date
pest management tips Organized by plant area affected and by taxa for easy identification Covers the continental United States and Canada Provides species level treatment of all insects and mites important to gardens Illustrates all life stages of key garden insects and commonly associated plant injuries Concise, clear, scientifically accurate text Comprehensive and user-friendly.
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