Locusts and Grasshoppers: a Handbook for their Study and Control

Abstract

THE entomologist working in the field in remote parts of the world is often seriously handicapped by the lack of literature; he requires a few handy books of reference that he can conveniently carry with him, books to which he can turn in times of need for reliable information concerning the different phases of his work. Such a book is Mr. B. P. Uvarov's “Locusts and Grasshoppers”: it is a masterly survey of the whole locust problem by one who has made the subject peculiarly his own. But the author has done far more than to compile a mere survey of the vast and scattered literature that has grown up around the locust problem; he has sifted and sorted his material in a manner that only one with his wide field experience and intimate knowledge of the subject could have done; he has rejected the worthless, indicated the doubtful, and given due prominence to the important and well-established contributions. Furthermore, he has added a running commentary of his own which adds greatly to the value of the book.

Locusts and Grasshoppers: a Handbook for their Study and Control.

By B. P. Uvarov. Pp. xiii + 352 + 10 plates. (London: The Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 1928.) 21s. net.