PESTICIDE APPLICATION METHODSPesticide Application Methods is the standard work for all those involved in crop protection. This fully revised and expanded edition provides up-to-date information on the different types of application techniques and how they should be used to ensure efficient and effective pest control.The third edition of this excellent book was published more than 10 years ago, since when a number of important developments have taken place. Examples include changes to legislation both in the EU and USA concerning water quality. This has an impact on how spray is applied and, more particularly, how the sprayer is designed to minimise quantities that remain in the equipment when spraying is completed, and in addition inform how and when the sprayer is cleaned. Concern about spray drift has also continued and has led to more research on how to reduce the amount of spray that moves downwind from a treated area. Important new information on this topic is included within the new edition.Professor Graham Matthews has been joined by two new co-authors to increase the breadth and depth of coverage in this updated edition of Pesticide Application Methods.This important new edition is a commercially significant reference tool and will be of great use and interest to all those working in crop protection, including agricultural entomologists and plant pathologists, pesticide scientists, advisors and consultants, large-scale growers, agricultural and horticultural scientists, agrochemical industry personnel including those involved in equipment supply and product formulation. Libraries in government and commercial research establishments, universities and agricultural colleges where agricultural and biological sciences are studied and taught should have multiple copies of this definitive book on their shelves.

Preface to fourth edition viiAcknowledgements xiConversion tables xiiiPesticide calculation xvUnits, abbreviations and symbols xvi1 Chemical control in integrated pest management 12 Targets for pesticide deposition 233 Formulation of pesticides 634 Spray droplets 915 Hydraulic nozzles 1256 Manually carried hydraulic sprayers 1597 Power-operated hydraulic sprayers 1818 Air-assisted sprayers 2159 Controlled droplet application 24510 Electrostatically charged sprays 27511 Aerial application 29912 Spray drift 33713 Seed treatment, dust and granule application 36314 Space treatment by fogging 38115 Specialist application techniques (injection, fumigation and other techniques) 39916 Application of biopesticides 41117 Maintenance of equipment 42918 Safety precautions 44319 Equipment for laboratory and field trials 47120 Selection of application equipment for chemical and biological pesticides 487Appendix: standards relating to pesticide application 499Index 503