TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Kamel Hassan Hosny AU - Essam Abdelmageed Agamy , AU - Gamal Zaki Taha , AU - Monir Mohamed Mohamed Elhusseini , TI - Biological and chemical control of besert locust and grasshoppers in Egypt / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Kamel Hassan Hosny , KW - Locust KW - Metarhizium anisopliae KW - Spinosad N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Agriculture - Department of Economic Entomology and Pesticides; Issued also as CD N2 - This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of spinosad (Tracer 24SC) and its efficacy on acridid pests (desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria and several species of grasshoppers) in comparison with both conventional pesticides, chloropyrifos and malathion in the laboratory on one side and with chloropyrifos under the field conditions on the other side ER -