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Sucking Pests of Temperate Fruits

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Many of the world’s best-known and favourite fruits (such as apple, pear, peach, plum, grape, and strawberry) are adapted to climates in the middle latitudes and are known as temperate fruits. These fruits require some cold periods (dormancy) to complete their life cycle and have various degrees of winter hardiness, which conditions their adaptability in cold climates. Among various crops, apple, walnut, and pear represent major crops of temperate fruits covering about 54, 22, and 6.9% of the total area and accounting for 82.3, 1.1, and 5.6% of temperate fruit production, respectively, while rest of the production comes from other fruits like peach, plum, almond, apricot, cherries, etc. Attack by insect pests remains a major limiting factor on the production of these fruits and can range from 10 to 35%. Sucking pests especially are major causes of yield loss. In this chapter, the detail scientific information regarding the sucking insect pests including ecology, life cycle, nature of damage, and management strategies are discussed.

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  1. Division of Entomology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Akhtar Ali Khan, A. A. Kundoo & Meinaz Nissar

  2. Division of Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Muntazir Mushtaq

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Khan, A.A., Kundoo, A.A., Nissar, M., Mushtaq, M. (2020). Sucking Pests of Temperate Fruits. In: Omkar (eds) Sucking Pests of Crops. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6149-8_12

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