Principles of Insects Pathology

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Mechanical, physical and chemical injuries. 3. Diseases of nutrition and metabolism. 4. The extra cellular microbiota of healthy insects. 5. Intracellular microbiota. 6. Infection and epizootology. 7. Resistance and immunity. 8. Symptoms and pathologies. 9. Bacterial infections. 10. Fungous infections. 11. Virus infections. 12. Protozoan infection. 13. Nematode infections. 14. Applied insect pathology and biological control. Author Index. Subject Index.

The present book which deals specifically with insect pathology i.e. with the microbial diseases of insects as well as with certain microbial diseases injuries and abnormalities. The task has not been an easy one. The accomplishments of workers in this field frequently are difficult to evaluate and present in a logical easily readable form. And too the field of insect pathology is much larger than most persons realize. Furthermore the subject matter is such as to be peculiarly difficult to present both as a textbook as a textbook and as a reference book. This nevertheless is what I attempted to accomplish.

The book contains over 5000 references dealing with the diseases of insects, and to attempt to include all these would defeat the purpose of the book. Care has been taken, however, to list those references which will lead the reader to most of the significant contributions made in each particular phase of the subject. (jacket)