Entomology: Current Status and Future Strategies
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. From the Chief Editor’s Desk/Arijit Ganguly. I. Insect Diversity and Conservation: 2. Insect Diversity and Needs for its Conservation with Special Emphasis on the Indian Subcontinent/Dipanwita Das and Sudipta Mandal. 3. Diversity of Grasshopper Communities with the Cropping Patterns of a Rice Agro-ecosystem in West Bengal, India/Ranita Chakravorty, Parimalendu Haldar and Santanu Ray. 4. Role of Acridids in Conservation and Management of Forest Ecosystem/Hiroj Kumar Saha and Parimalendu Haldar. II. Environmental Toxicology of Insects: 5. Influence of Heavy Metals on the Hatching Abilities and Embryonic Duration of Two Common Indian Short-Horn Grasshoppers/Chandrik Malakar. III. Insect Taxonomy: 6. An Introduction to True Fly: Classification and Diversity of Diptera/Nilotpol Paul and Abhijit Mazumdar. IV. Insect Behaviour: 7. Food-Induced Food-Transporting Strategies of the Ants Pheidole roberti and Paratrechina longicornis/K. Naskar and S.K. Raut. V. Medicinal Value of Insects: 8. Nutraceutical and Medicinal Insects: An Unexplored Research Field/Arias Barrera Ana Isabel, Pino Moreno José Manuel. VI. Insects as Food for Human and Livestock: 9. Edible Insects in some Latin American Countries: Advantages and Prospects/Pino Moreno José Manuel, Reyes Prado Humberto and García Flores Alejandro. 10. The “Jumiles” (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae and Coreidae) in the State of Morelos, Mexico: Taxonomy, Distribution and Commercialization/Pino Moreno José Manuel, García Flores Alejandro, Monroy Martínez Rafael and Barreto Sánchez Sandra Denisse. 11. Nutrients and Anti-nutrients Present in Oxya fuscovittata (Orthoptera: Acrididae): Looking beyond Proximate Composition/Arijit Ganguly and Parimalendu Haldar. VII. Insect Pest Management: 12. Role of Semiochemicals in Vegetable Insect Pests Management/Jaydeep Halder and Atanu Seni. 13. Semiochemicals and Insect Pest Management/Norma Robledo, Humberto Reyes Prado and René Arzuffi. 14. Desert Locust Management: Present and Future Prospects/Sory Cisse. Index.
The book is divided into seven segments: Insect diversity and conservation, environmental toxicology of insects, insect taxonomy, insect behaviour, medicinal value of insects, Insects as food for human and livestock, and insect pest management.
In the first segment there is a general discussion on the biodiversity and conservation of insects with emphasis on India, next will be a chapter on grasshopper diversity, followed by how acridid grasshoppers play an important role in conserving forest ecosystem health. In the second segment it will be discovered how heavy metal pollution is impacting grasshopper population. The third segment will dealing with a wide taxonomical review on the order Diptera that have medical importance. In the fourth segment the foraging behaviour of two ant species has been revealed. In the fifth segment you will gain knowledge about nutraceuticals and medicinal insects that is yet a very less explored field. In the sixth segment we have tried to put some lights on the edible insects of Latin American countries, which will followed by a discussion on a very special group of Mexican edible hemipteran: The Jumiles. The last chapter of this segment will disclose nutrients and anti-nutrients of a potential food insect from India.
In the concluding seventh segment ideas of pest control using semiochemicals will be revealed that are most recent eco-friendly way for pest management. This segment will be concluded with a discussion on the management of a very special and devastating group: The Locusts. We are very sure that readers will enjoy this book and the information provided in this book will be utilized by the researchers working on insect science across the globe. (jacket)
