1st Edition
Flies Agricultural and Public-Health Perspectives
Flies: An Introduction
Omkar
Section 1: Flies as Agricultural and Horticultural Pests
1. Fly Pests of Cereals
Swoyam Singh, Rajnni Dogra, Deepika Jeengar, and Nishismita Parida
2. Fly Pests of Food Legumes
Sanjay M. Bandi, Jagdish Jaba, Revanasidda, Anup Chandra, Gopalakrishnan Kesharivarmen Sujayanand, and Mareppa Hussani Kodandaram
3. Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritide) in India
Karamankodu Jacob David, N. R. Noor Mahammed, Venkateshaiah Abhishek, Shanthamma Salini, Abraham Verghese, and Melur Ashwathappa Rashmi
4. Flies of Biological Control and Environmental Engineering
Mani Chellappan, Jasti Sri Vishnu Murthy, Ranjith Matta Thodikayil, and Naveena Unnikrishnan
5. Hoverflies in Agriculture
H. S. Venu, U. Amala, and T. M. Shivalingaswamy
6. Parasitic Flies
Meena Agnihotri, Rajnni Dogra, Radha Joshi, and Hassan Beg
7. Tachinid flies
Ramya Ramesan Syamala, Karamankodu Jacob David, Shivakumara Kadanakuppe Thammayya, and Ranjith Mohanrao
8. Scuttle Flies (Phoridae)
Kailash Chandra
Section 2: Flies of Medical, Veterinary, and Forensic Importance
9. Flies of Public Health Importance
L. Rajesh Chowdary, Giri Naga Harish, Ashok Kumar Karedla, and Keerthi Manikyanahalli Chandrashekara
10. Flesh flies (Sarcophagidae)
Shuvra Kanti Sinha and Nandan Jana
11. Mosquitoes of Public Health and Veterinary Importance
Rajander S. Sharma
12. Blackflies, Simulium spp. (Diptera: Simuliidae)
Vijay Veer
13. Flies of Forensic Importance
Mani Chellappan, Ranjith Matta Thodikayil, Jasti Sri Vishnu Murthy, and Naveena Unnikrishnan
14. Flies in Forensic Investigations
Bhanvi Wadhawan and Devinder Singh
Biography
Omkar, FNASc, associated with teaching for about 36 years and research for 44 years is a Former Head, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Former Coordinator, UGC-SAP (DRS-II), DST-FIST, DST-PURSE, Centre of Excellence, Govt. of UP, programs. He has worked on 10 more projects of state/central funding agencies. He specializes in Environmental Toxicology and Entomology, with particular reference to the Insect Pest Management. He is Chief Editor, Journal of Applied Bioscience, Associate Editor, International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, and President, International Society of Applied Biology.
