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The Biological Control of Insects

Author(s) -

Harvey L. Sweetman

Publication year - 1943

Publication title -

nature

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 15.993

H-Index - 1226

eISSN - 1476-4687

pISSN - 0028-0836

DOI - 10.1038/152399e0

Subject(s) - biologist , control (management) , environmental ethics , ecology , biology , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , botany

THE control of insect pests by means of parasites and predators appeals to the biologist and the general public alike. The biologist sees in the method the practical application of scientific knowledge by the utilization of living organisms. To the public it forms an attractive chapter in the progress of applied science. Dr. Nicol has recounted the history and practice of the methods of biological control in an attractively written volume. His account is accurate, free from undue technicality and shows, an unbiased detached viewpoint. It can be recommended to a wide circle of readers including scientific folk themselves. As the author remarks, there is science, and also material for philosophy, for the reader who looks a little beneath the surface of the story, here recounted, towards the deeper issues.The Biological Control of InsectsHughNicolBy. (Pelican Books, A.113.) Pp. 174 + 8 plates. (Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1943.) 9d. net.

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