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100 1 $aGraham, Frank,$d1925-
245 14 $aThe dragon hunters /$cFrank Graham, Jr. ; illustrations by Robert Shetterly.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bE.P. Dutton,$c©1984.
300 $axii, 334 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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500 $a"A Truman Talley Book."
505 0 $aFirst victory: The cottony-cushion scale and the ladybug -- Learning from the past: Time and the citrus whitefly -- Nature's maze: The whitefly and the aggravating ant -- The dreaded gypsies: Attacking the forest killers -- The dreaded gypsies: Concocting a lethal cocktail -- Deadly cargo: The battle against the cereal leaf beetle -- The laboratory: The collapse of the cereal leaf beetle -- The parasite hunter and the ice plant scale -- The devastating screwworm: The Florida strategy -- The devastating screwworm: The Texas solution -- The California red scale and its puzzling parasites -- The alfalfa leaf miner: The French connection -- The alfalfa weevil: The six-pak solution -- Microbials: Attacking the spruce budworm -- Plant pests: The water hyacinth and the South -- A plague of locusts: The search for nature's solutions -- The cotton conundrum: The implacable boll weevil -- The cotton connection: The teamwork strategy of integrated pest management -- The cotton conservators: The integrated pest management success in Texas -- Politics versus progress: The learning curve in California -- Coexistence at home: Our fields, our farms, your own backyard.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index.
520 $aDiscusses the ladybug, citrus whitefly, ants, gypsy moths, the cereal leaf beetle, screwworms, alfalfa weevils, locusts, boll weevils, budworms, grasshoppers, flies, leaf miners, mosquitoes, wasps, and other parasites and pests and scientists' methods to control them.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aGraham, Frank, 1925-$tDragon hunters.$b1st ed.$dNew York : E.P. Dutton, ©1984$w(OCoLC)560319135
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