
| New Crop Production Handbook (Peace Corps, 1985, 390 p.) |
| Section I |
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We live in a world with teeming millions of insects - some useful and some harmful. There are about 686, 000 known species of insects. Some of the more common useful insects are honeybees, dragonflies, damselflies, wild bees, robberflies, tiger beetles, ladybeetles, silkworms, etc. Insects, of course, can be both harmful and useful. There are many more harmful than useful types The following Table is a list of the more common insects which are harmful to crop plants
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