The insect pests of Nigerian crops and stock.
Date
1946
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Lagos State: The Government Printer,
Abstract
Notes on major pests of crops and their control; List of crops; List of insect pests and their food-plants; List of blood-sucking flies; Bibliography : literature dealing with the crop pests, termites;
Description
This bulletin presents lists of the insect pests of crops and stock in Nigeria and a bibliography of the literature dealing with the crop pests, termites and wild silk moths of West Africa (Mauretania to the Belgian Congo). The main object of the bulletin is to collect under one cover data which should prove of interest to the writer's successors in the Nigerian agricultural department and to entomologists elsewhere. Mr G. S. Cotterell, who is shortly retiring after twenty-five years c-f entomological research in the gold coast, has written a handbook of the crop pests of that territory. His book contains about ninety excellent illustrations of major pests; descriptions of the insects; accounts of their life-histories and notes on methods of controlling them. As practically all the major pests of Nigeria also occur in the gold coast a similar handbook for this country would be redundant. When Mr Cotterell’s book is published the value of this bulletin to laymen interested in agricultural entomology and to students will be greatly enhanced.