Author Description

"Applied Myrmecology" is an inclusive look at the pest ants of the world. Covering species found in South Amercia, Africa, Australia, India, Europe, and North America the book draws on a wide variety of disciplines to bring together, a picture of the systematics; reproduction; biology; behavioural, chemical and applied ecology; and problems of control of pest ants. With both species-specific studies and broad, synthetic overviews, this is a useful book for not only entromologists but also ethnologists, biochemists, agricultural scientists, ecologists, and others interested in the interactions between insects and the environment and human attempts to control those interactions.