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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 468–495.
Published: 01 October 2008
... farmers and entomologists who were once dedicated to an impressively wide range of insect control options ultimately settled on the promise of a chemically driven approach to managing destructive insects. Central to this investigation is an emphasis on the bureaucratic maneuverings of Leland O. Howard...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 83–114.
Published: 01 January 2001
...J. F. M. Clark Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 [Footnotes] 1 "Posts for Entomologists," The Times , 20 November1919, 13 , col. d H. Porter
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, "The Journals of W. N. P. Barbellion," Journal of Modern Literature , 3 (February1973): 45 -62 William...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 300–301.
Published: 01 April 2007
... into the correspondence of the warriors and contemporary literature to detail the history of the insect's escape from captivity in 1869, its delight in American oak leaves, and the attempts of gypsy moth commissioners and economic entomologists to suppress it in the 1890s. The Great Gypsy Moth War describes a pioneering...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 309–321.
Published: 01 April 2000
..., to W. D. Hunter, 3 September 1918, box 3, e-73, NARG 7. 13 Brazoria County Pink Bollworm Publicity Committee, "Cotton Industry of Texas Facing a Calamity," n.d., box 7 (which covers 1920), e-73, NARG 7. 14 Ernest E. Scholl, chief entomologist of the State Department of Agriculture, to W. D...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 46–73.
Published: 01 January 2010
... entomologists from North America and the British Empire questioned the so-called internationality of the environmental and economic specificities of continental European agriculture, embodied in "international" conventions. Although an international phenomenon, the dissemination of agricultural pests provided...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 541–571.
Published: 01 November 2024
... as the solution to the pest problem, this article situates Okinawan agriculture and the SIT project in the deeper context of colonialism, overdependence on pesticides, and the nuclearization of Japan, by taking seriously the fact that the entomologist who led the project felt profound ambivalence toward “peaceful...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 298–300.
Published: 01 April 2007
... captivity in 1869, its delight in American oak leaves, and the attempts of gypsy moth commissioners and economic entomologists to suppress it in the 1890s. The Great Gypsy Moth War describes a pioneering effort to maintain the state's vegetation against the invasion of a foreign insect. Because the text...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 375–376.
Published: 01 July 2006
... to agriculture, wildlife, and occasionally, humans. Entomologists disagreed on the economic importance of fire ants, their diet, their benefits, and other questions. Buhs not only discusses these issues but also traces the careers and contributions of leading entomologists and clears up misconceptions that have...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 373–375.
Published: 01 July 2006
..., and they expanded as southern nurseries shipped them with plants across the country. Without natural enemies, fire ants quickly moved across the South to become at least a nuisance and at most a menace to agriculture, wildlife, and occasionally, humans. Entomologists disagreed on the economic importance of fire...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 105–106.
Published: 01 April 2012
.... V. Riley (state entomologist for Missouri) and J. E´ . Planchon (botany professor at Montpellier) that determined the US origin of the pest and hence the possibility of using phylloxera-resistant American rootstock to replant. Gale details the search for an explanation to the dying vines, as well...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... An authority on bee science and history, entomologist Gene Kritsky synthesizes traces of Egyptian beekeeping that he has accumulated since his first visit to Egypt in the early 1980s. The compilation owes its existence to his devotion to bee culture a quality reflected in the book s dedication to the late Eva...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 291–292.
Published: 01 April 2007
... the guise of applied research aims, Hewitt extended the activities of the entomologist to those of the researcher, who was not then strictly dedicated to the study of insect infestations. In tracing the history of the Canadian economic entomology from the naturalistic approaches of the late nineteenth...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 289–290.
Published: 01 April 2011
... the emergence of the movable frame hive, the rich research programs of entomologists like Sue Cobey, Marion Ellis, and Marla Spivak suggest that biological inquiry deserves center stage. Suggestions of how to wed current research to technological innovation would offer clearer direction. Overall, Kritsky offers...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 288–289.
Published: 01 April 2011
... and historically accurate. Kritsky s concluding chapter promotes new hive technology as beekeepers savior in the molecular age (189).This seems surprising. Just as decades of scientific observation guided the emergence of the movable frame hive, the rich research programs of entomologists like Sue Cobey, Marion...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 103–105.
Published: 01 April 2012
... an international dimension as it was joint work by C. V. Riley (state entomologist for Missouri) and J. E´ . Planchon (botany professor at Montpellier) that determined the US origin of the pest and hence the possibility of using phylloxera-resistant American rootstock to replant. Gale details the search...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 619–621.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., she draws on interviews with beekeepers, farmers, and entomologists from around the world to discuss a variety of ongoing efforts to improve the health of global honeybee populations. Most interesting are her visits to a Milwaukee neighborhood that has relied on beekeeping to heal both the community...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 361–363.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of Marston Bates, a young American entomologist assigned to UFCO divisions in Guatemala and Honduras. Bates fieldwork sensitized him to the nuances of the region s ecosystems and indigenous cultures. Years later, as a pre-eminent zoologist, he produced a trenchant critique of the the toplofty attitude...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 January 2017
... history with the author s passion for bees. An authority on bee science and history, entomologist Gene Kritsky synthesizes traces of Egyptian beekeeping that he has accumulated since his first visit to Egypt in the early 1980s. The compilation owes its existence to his devotion to bee culture a quality...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 145–147.
Published: 01 January 2016
... themselves came in for criticism from government agents and entomologists, who argued that overgrazing had created ideal conditions for insect irruptions. daunted by the complexities of fundamental land-management reform, however, experts turned to a simpler solution: chemical poisons distributed over...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 292–294.
Published: 01 April 2007
... to the descriptive and static entomology of his predecessors, he studied insects from a physiological and evolutionary point of view, as well as from an ecological and dynamic perspective. Thus, under the guise of applied research aims, Hewitt extended the activities of the entomologist to those of the researcher...
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