This fully revised and updated second edition of Handbook of Vegetable Pests provides the most detailed and comprehensive volume on vegetable pests ever published. Including over 300 common and occasional pest species, or species complexes, the book provides detailed information on the geographic distribution of vegetable pests, host plant relationships, natural enemies, damage, life history, and methods of control and damage prevention. Handbook of Vegetable Pests provides two types of diagnostic aids: the easy-to-use "guides to pests of vegetable crops", which guides the reader to the most likely pests of each vegetable crop based on the portion of the plant attacked and the category of pest; and the more technical dichotomous keys for identification of many of the difficult-to-identify species. Perhaps the most important element of the handbook is the detailed pest profiles which include numerous color photographs. Sources for additional biological information, or currently recommended insecticides, are also provided.