Insects as Service Providers

Insects play a vital role in providing various services to humans, including environmental, recreational, aesthetic, and cultural services. They are used as eco-friendly tools, parasitoids and predators in biological control, crop pollination, food production, pharmaceuticals, ecosystem services, disease therapy, wound healing, criminal investigations, and research and technology innovations. This book highlights the beneficial aspects of insects in human life and is of interest to students, researchers, and anyone interested in insects.

Format: Hardback
Length: 340 pages
Publication date: 09 December 2022
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

Insects play a vital role in providing a wide range of services to humans, environments, recreation, aesthetics, and culture. They serve as eco-friendly tools, parasitoids, and predators in biological control, reducing the use of agrochemicals in agriculture and protecting the environment. Insects facilitate crop pollination, increase agricultural yield, and serve as food for the global human population. They also provide pharmaceuticals, participate in ecosystem services, and act as scavengers. Insects have applications in disease therapy, wound healing, criminal investigations, and research and technology innovations. Additionally, they produce valuable materials such as silks, lac, honey, propolis, and wax, contributing to insect tourism, recreation, and culture. This comprehensive volume explores these diverse beneficial aspects of insects in human life, making it valuable for undergraduate and postgraduate students in entomology, agricultural zoology, researchers, and anyone with an interest in insects, including policy planners.

Insects are beneficial to humans as eco-friendly tools, as parasitoids and predators in the biological control of insect pests and vectors, reducing the use of agrochemicals in modern agriculture and protecting the environment.

Insects facilitate crop pollination and increase the agricultural yield. They are farmers' friends and serve as food for the human population worldwide, providing pharmaceuticals, taking part in ecosystem services, and working as scavengers. Insects are used in disease therapy and wound healing. They are also helpful in criminal investigations and are the best models for research and technology innovations. Insects also yield various silks, lac, honey, propolis, wax, etc., promoting insect tourism, recreation, and culture.

This contributed volume focuses on these different beneficial aspects of insects in human life.

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of entomology, agricultural zoology, researchers, and anyone interested in insects, including policy planners.

Weight: 694g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811934056
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023