Insect outbreaks revisited /

• Other Authors: Barbosa, Pedro, 1944-, Letourneau, Deborah Kay, Agrawal, Anurag A.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
• Subjects: Insect populations.; Insects > Ecology.; Insect pests.; NATURE > Animals > Insects & Spiders.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Entomology.; Electronic books.

"The abundance of insects can change dramatically from generation to generation; these generational changes may occur within a growing season or over a period of years. Such extraordinary density changes or "outbreaks" may be abrupt and ostensibly random, or population peaks may occur...