Commercial Insects

Professor Omkar

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032594958
• eBook ISBN: 9781003832089
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Despite being the biggest group of organisms inhabiting Earth in both diversity and sheer numbers, insects are barely commercialized. Most of the standard textbooks of applied entomology talk about insect pest management, and when it comes to commercial aspects of insects, only apiculture, sericulture, and lac culture are talked about. This book will help bring other commercial uses of insects and their economic potential to the fore. This will generate interest in further research on the commercial potential of insects, thereby harnessing a much-found resource.

The book has the following salient features:

1. Encompasses all major aspects of beneficial and commercial insects.

2. Deals with edible insects and mass culture of natural enemies and beneficial insects.

3. Emphasis on the mass cultivation of beneficial insects for obtaining yields.

4. Discusses stingless bees and their products.

5. Helps to solve the problem of food scarcity and improve food security.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Editor Biography
• List of Contributors
• Chapter 1 Lac Insects
• Chapter 2 Mulberry Silk Insect
• Chapter 3 Tropical Tasar Insect
• Chapter 4 Tasar Insect – Antheraea proylei J
• Chapter 5 Eri Silk Insect (Samia ricini, Donovan)
• Chapter 6 Muga Silk Insect (Antheraea assamensis)
• Chapter 7 Honey Bee Diversity
• Chapter 8 The Stingless Bees
• Chapter 9 Edible Insects
• Chapter 10 Dye-Yielding Insects
• Chapter 11 Mass Production of Insect Parasitoids
• Chapter 12 Mass Production of Insect Predators
• Chapter 13 Mass Production of Beneficial Insects
• Index