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Pests

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The list of pests which can attack sugar-beet plants is a long one and includes representatives of several, widely differing animal groups (Table 11.1). Every commercial beet crop is host to some of these pests during its growth, although the relative importance of each species varies from field to field, country to country and year to year. It would take too long to deal with each pest in detail in this chapter, but extensive well-illustrated descriptions of most of them, and their effects on the sugar-beet crop, are given by Lejealle and d’Aguilar (1982) and Benada et al. (1987). Those publications give no information on control measures, and decisions on preventing pest damage (for example by applying pesticides) must take account of national regulations and local conditions; such information is best obtained from trained crop advisers or up-to-date advisory publications, e.g. Cooke et al. (1989) or Jaggard (1989) in the UK, Whitney and Duffus (1986) in the USA and Jorritsma (1985) in The Netherlands. More general accounts of pest management techniques and the principles underlying them are given by Jones and Jones (1984), Brown and Kerry (1987) and Hill (1987).

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Cooke, D.A. (1993). Pests. In: Cooke, D.A., Scott, R.K. (eds) The Sugar Beet Crop. World Crop Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0373-9_11

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