A new book has been published promising to offer growers and others a detailed source of information on pests of fruit crops.
Pests of Fruit Crops was penned by David Alford, former MAFF regional entomologist and head of the department of entomology at Cambridge. He is well known to the industry for his Colour Atlas of Fruit Pests, which was published in 1984.
In the new fully revised and renamed edition of ‘Fruit Pests’, the scope of the original publication has been expanded to encompass pests of fruit crops throughout Europe, drawing in the invaluable expertise of those working in Holland, Belgium and France. In doing so the pests of more favoured growing regions has been included, perhaps embracing some of the portents of global warming in southern England.
Alford explains: ‘The natural drift of species from country to country is also a continuing phenomenon, at least in some instances probably encouraged and enhanced by modern-day climate change.”
The book is published by Manson Publishing.
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