Commercial Insects

About this book

Despite being the biggest group of organisms inhabiting Earth in both diversity and sheer numbers, insects are barely commercialized. Most of the standard textbooks of applied entomology talk about insect pest management, and when it comes to commercial aspects of insects, only apiculture, sericulture, and lac culture are talked about. This book will help bring other commercial uses of insects and their economic potential to the fore. This will generate interest in further research on the commercial potential of insects, thereby harnessing a much-found resource.

This book:
1. Encompasses all major aspects of beneficial and commercial insects.
2. Deals with edible insects and mass culture of natural enemies and beneficial insects.
3. Emphasises the mass cultivation of beneficial insects for obtaining yields.
4. Discusses stingless bees and their products.
5. Helps to solve the problem of food scarcity and improve food security.

Contents

Chapter 1. Lac Insects / K. K. Sharma
Chapter 2. Mulberry Silk Insect / Babulal, G. Mallikarjuna, S. Balasaraswathi and Omkar
Chapter 3. Tropical Tasar Insect / Manoj M. Rai, Mohan Rathod, Suvarna Wazalwar and Suresh Kumar Raina
Chapter 4. Tasar Insect - Antheraea proylei J / Rakesh Kumar Goel
Chapter 5. Eri Silk Insect (Samia ricini, Donovan) / Subadas Singh, Dharmendra K. Jigyasu, Om Prakash Patidar, Amit Kumar and Aftab A. Shabnam
Chapter 6. Muga Silk Insect (Antheraea assamensis) / Dharmendra Kumar Jigyasu, Om Prakash Patidar, Amit Kumar and Aftab A. Shabnam
Chapter 7. Honey Bee Diversity / M. R. Srinivasan and M. S. R. Haran
Chapter 8. The Stingless Bees / M.S. Khan and Gaurava Kumar
Chapter 9. Edible Insects / Apoorva Shandilya, Geetanjali Mishra and Omkar
Chapter 10. Dye-Yielding Insects / S. Shabihe Raza Baqri and Omkar
Chapter 11. Mass Production of Insect Parasitoids / M.S. Smitha, Mani Chellappan and M.T. Ranjith
Chapter 12. Mass Production of Insect Predators / Berin Pathrose, Mani Chellappan and M.T. Ranjith
Chapter 13. Mass Production of Beneficial Insects / M.T. Ranjith and Mani Chellappan

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Biography

Prof. Omkar, FNASc, associated with teaching for about 36 years and research for 44 years is a Former Head, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow; and Former Coordinator, UGC-SAP (DRS-II), DST-FIST, DST-PURSE, Centre of Excellence, Govt. of UP, programs. He has worked on 10 more projects for state/central funding agencies. He specializes in Environmental Toxicology and Entomology, with particular reference to Insect Pest Management. He is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Applied Bioscience, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, Springer, and President of the International Society of Applied Biology.

He is a recipient of several awards, like Saraswati Samman by the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of UP; Prof. T N Ananthakrishanan Foundation Award, Rescholar Award of Excellence in Agricultural Entomology by Association of Entomologists, Prof. G. S. Shukla Gold Medal by The Academy of Environmental Biology, Dr S. Pradhan Memorial Lecture Award by The Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute & The Entomological Society of India, New Delhi, ACCLAIM and Uddeepan awards from the University of Lucknow. He is a Fellow of The Entomological Society of India, Zoological Society of India, Society for Biocontrol Advancement and Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences India (FNASc), among many others. He has 23 books to his credit. He has published 247 research papers, 11 reviews, 44 reviews as Book chapters, and 16 popular science articles. Prof. Omkar has supervised 25 PhD students. He visited the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia (2006) for three months and the Department of Zoology, University of South Bohemia and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic (May 2016) under INSA Bilateral Exchange programs.