Pesticide Toxicity to Non-Target Organisms Exposure, Toxicity and Risk Assessment Methodologies

About this book

Pesticides should cause an effect on the target pests and be selective enough to spare the non-target beneficial. Pesticide Toxicity to Non-Target Organisms deals with pesticide toxicity to predators, parasitoids and microbes which are used for pest management in agroecosystems. Other beneficials exposed to pesticides are pollinators, earthworms, silkworm and fishes. Pesticide Toxicity to Non-Target Organisms contains information on the modes of pesticide exposure and toxicity to the organisms, sub-lethal effects of insecticides and method of toxicity assessment, risk assessment of pesticidal application in the field. The purpose of the work is to compile and present the different procedures to assess pesticide poisoning in organisms related to agroecosystem along with discussions on risk assessment procedures with clear comparison of toxicity of pesticides to target pests and non target beneficial organisms.

Contents

1. Importance of Arthropod Predators
2. Routes of Pesticide Exposure to Arthropod Predators
3. Effects of Pesticides on Predators in Agro-ecosystem
4. Methods of Assess Pesticide Toxicity to Arthropod Predators
5. Pesticide Risk Assessment for Arthropod Predators
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