Omkar E ditor Industrial Entomology Industrial Entomology Omkar Editor Industrial Entomology Editor Omkar Department of Zoology University of Lucknow Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India ISBN 978-981-10-3303-2 ISBN 978-981-10-3304-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3304-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017932072 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore Preface While dealing with certain topics in entomology to undergraduate and postgraduate students of zoology over the last three decades, I realized a dearth of information on certain topics indicating a strong need of a specialized book dealing with those top- ics. In this way, the title Industrial Entomology came into existence in my mind. The term industrial entomology refers to the use of insects, their activities, or products on industrial scale for the human welfare. In the same context, I contacted with certain real experts for the selected topics covered under the umbrella of industrial entomology. The book starts with a brief write up on industrial entomology, fol- lowed by honey bee diversity, bee keeping, diseases, and natural enemies of honey bees; lac insects, lac cultivation, and lac culture; mulberry sericulture; diseases and natural enemies of Bombyx mori; tropical tasar culture; temperate tasar culture; eri- culture and muga sericulture; insect pollinators, insects as food, and insect pharma- ceuticals; and mass production of natural enemies for biocontrol of insect pests. To my knowledge, there is no such book dealing with these specialized topics by the real experts. I am sure that the book will be quite useful in studies not only to under- graduate and postgraduate students but to all those interested in practicing these areas besides the policy planners. I am thankful to all the contributors and subject experts including Professors M.R. Srinivasan, D.D. Barsagade, and M.S. Khan and Drs. Pradyumn Kumar, K.K. Sharma, P. Kumar, T.P.S. Chauhan, R.K. Goel, Mukesk Tayal, Babulal, A.A. Siddiqui, Bijoy K. Singh, Geetanjali Mishra, and Sunita Yadav, among others, from the inner core of my heart for instantly agreeing to my proposal and sparing time from their routine and hectic schedule to finalize and submit the chapters assigned to them within the time frame. I am especially thankful to my research team consisting of Dr. Geetanjali Mishra (associate professor), M/S. Shashwat Singh, Desh Deepak Chaudhary, Garima Pandey, Swati Saxena, Apoorva Shandilya, Priya Singh, and Chandani Verma for continued support during this venture. I greatly appreciate the last few weeks’ sup- port from Dr. Geetanjali Mishra in finalizing this book. v vi Preface I am also thankful to my wife, Mrs. Kusum Upadhyay, for her encouragements and silent sacrifice during the entire course of this project. Thanks are also due to Dr. Mamta Kapila, Ms. Manjusha Nalamolu, Mr. Raman Shukla, and Mr. Joseph Daniel from Springer Group for motivating me and also for keeping me alert from time to time, thus helping me in completing this book in time. Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Omkar Contents 1 An Introduction to Industrial Entomology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Omkar 2 Honeybee: Diversity, Castes and Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Sunita Yadav, Yogesh Kumar, and Babul Lal Jat 3 Beekeeping in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 M. Kishan Tej, R. Aruna, Geetanjali Mishra, and M.R. Srinivasan 4 Diseases and Enemies of Honeybees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Sunita Yadav and H.D. Kaushik 5 Lac Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Y.D. Mishra and P. Kumar 6 Lac Insects and Host Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 K.K. Sharma 7 Lac Crop Harvesting and Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 K.K. Sharma 8 Mulberry Sericulture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 T.P.S. Chauhan and Mukesh K. Tayal 9 Silkworm Diseases and Pests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Mukesh K. Tayal and T.P.S. Chauhan 10 Tropical Tasar Sericulture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 D.D. Barsagade 11 Temperate Tasar Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Rakesh K. Goel 12 Ericulture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 B.K. Singh and S.A. Ahmed 13 Muga Sericulture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Babulal, A.A. Siddiqui, and S. Chouhan vii viii Contents 14 Insect Crop Pollinators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 M.S. Khan and Manish Kumar Yogi 15 Insects as Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Geetanjali Mishra and Omkar 16 Entomoceuticals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 Geetanjali Mishra and Omkar 17 Mass Production of Biocontrol Agents of Insect Pests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 Pradyumn Kumar, Jaswinder Kaur, J.C. Sekhar, Soujanya P. Lakshmi, and S.B. Suby Contributors S.A. Ahmed Central Muga Eri Research & Training Institute, Central Silk Board, Lahdoigarh, Assam, India R. Aruna Department of Agricultural Entomology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Babulal Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Central Silk Board, Pampore, Jammu and Kashmir, India D.D. Barsagade Department of Zoology, MJF Educational Campus, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India T.P.S. Chauhan Ex-Scientist, Central Silk Board, Niranjanpur, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India S. Chouhan Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Central Silk Board, Pampore, Jammu and Kashmir, India Rakesh K. Goel Central Silk Board, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India Babul Lal Jat Department of Entomology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India Jaswinder Kaur Indian Institute of Maize Research, Indian Agricultural Research Institute Campus, New Delhi, India H.D. Kaushik Department of Entomology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India M.S. Khan Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India M. Kishan Tej Department of Agricultural Entomology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India P. Kumar Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums, Namkum, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India Pradyumn Kumar Indian Institute of Maize Research, Indian Agricultural Research Institute Campus, New Delhi, India ix x Contributors Yogesh Kumar Department of Entomology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India Soujanya P. Lakshmi Indian Institute of Maize Research, Indian Agricultural Research Institute Campus, New Delhi, India Geetanjali Mishra Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Y.D. Mishra (deceased) Omkar Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India J.C. Sekhar Indian Institute of Maize Research, Indian Agricultural Research Institute Campus, New Delhi, India K.K. Sharma Lac Production Division, Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums, Namkum, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India A.A. Siddiqui Former Scientist, Central Silk Board, Kalyanpur, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India B.K. Singh Central Muga Eri Research & Training Institute, Central Silk Board, Lahdoigarh, Assam, India M.R. Srinivasan Department of Agricultural Entomology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India S.B. Suby Indian Institute of Maize Research, Indian Agricultural Research Institute Campus, New Delhi, India Mukesh K. Tayal Regional Sericultural Research Station, Central Silk Board, Miransahib, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India Sunita Yadav Department of Entomology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India Manish Kumar Yogi Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India