Insects and Human Welfare with Special Reference to their Role in Agricultural Production

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dc.contributor.authorAdenuga, A. O.
dc.coverage.geographicalNigeriaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-16T18:54:24Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-27T13:55:48Z
dc.date.available2013-02-16T18:54:24Z
dc.date.available2018-10-27T13:55:48Z
dc.date.copyright1979
dc.date.issued1978-10-19
dc.departmentPlant Scienceen_US
dc.description.abstractThis I believe is the second ineugural Lecture to be delivered by a Professor of Plant Science in this University but the first by a Nigerian Professor of Plant Science. My predecessor, Professor Duncan, who first inaugurated the chair of Plant Science showed in his treatise quite clearly the importance of weather in agricultural production in a discipline known as agro climatology. My own lecture today on "Insects and Human Welfare," is in the area of insect science known technically as entomology. You can see, therefore, that Plant Science has a broad scope, some of its disciplines seemingly unrelated to an uninitiated observer. Indeed, I have often been asked: 'If you study insects, which are in any case animals, why are you not in the Department of Animal Science?'. As an agricultural entomologist the ultimate aim of my study of insects is to be able to reduce the damages insect pests do to crop plants, livestock and agricultural produce, and quite recently, that function has been extended to the improvement of environmental factors under which beneficial insects like parasites or predators of insect pests and insects that pollinate flowers can multiply and thrive well. But principally because insect pests of crops are several times more numerous than pests of livestock, entomologists are based in the Department of Plant Science rather than the Department of Animal Science.en_US
dc.facultiesAgricultureen_US
dc.format.filetypepdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2577
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.pages.totalpages27en_US
dc.publisherObafemi Awolowo University Pressen_US
dc.subjectInsects' attack on livestocken_US
dc.subjectInsects' attack on cropsen_US
dc.subjectFood shortagesen_US
dc.subjectBeneficial insectsen_US
dc.subjectEconomic entomologists
dc.subjectInsect abundance
dc.subjectinsect adaptability
dc.subjectApplication of insecticides
dc.subjectPest control
dc.subjectIntegrated pest management
dc.titleInsects and Human Welfare with Special Reference to their Role in Agricultural Productionen_US
dc.typeLectureen_US
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