This revised second edition is one of the best illustrated guides available for the prevention, identification, monitoring, and management of pests injurious to crops in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. It is also a useful reference and teaching tool, benefiting students of Middle Eastern agriculture and entomology. It provides updated information on the comprehensive morphology, distribution, and biology of more than 300 significant pest species of the orders Acarina, Thysanoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera, respectively.


About the Author

Abdul Mun'im Talhouk discovered his lifelong fascination with insects in the 1930s while working on his father's orchard in the mountains of Lebanon. He received his BS in 1948 and his MS in 1955 from the American University of Beirut, and his PhD from the University of Munich in 1960. In the course of his career he discovered numerous insect and mite species in Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia, several of which bear his name. The author of numerous scholarly publications, Professor Talhouk taught at AUB from 1955 to 1985. He served as research entomologist with the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Agriculture from 1976 until his retirement in 1986.