TY - BK AU - Rashwani,A. ED - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo (Syria) TI - Introduction to the major insect pests of wheat and barley in the Middle East and North Africa. Technical Manual No.9 U1 - 87-000124 PY - 1980/// KW - Africa KW - Animals KW - Arthropods KW - Cereals KW - AGROVOC KW - Control KW - Crops KW - Economic plants KW - Education KW - Glumiflorae KW - Grain crops KW - Gramineae KW - Hemiptera KW - Injurious factors KW - Insects KW - Invertebrates KW - Monocotyledons KW - Noxious animals KW - Pests KW - Pests of plants KW - Plants KW - Training KW - Triticum KW - Wheat N1 - 8 tables; 31 figures; 38 ref. glossary N2 - The annual specifically provides background information for trainees in cereal improvement courses organized by ICARDA. It emphasizes the practical considerations which are necessary in the identification of both the insect and the damage it causes and of the methods which can be applied to reduce this damage. With its new and simple way of presentation the manual is useful as a guide in the field, to students of entomology, to ICARDA trainees, and to the farmer in his endeavor to protect crops from insect pest ER -