**Meet the editor**

Prof. Stanislav Trdan, head of the Chair of Phytomedicine, Agricultural Engineering, Crop Production, Pasture and Grassland Management (Dept. of Agronomy, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD (agricultural entomology) from the University of Ljubljana. Since 2006, he has been the president of the Plant Protection Society of

Slovenia; since 2008, he has been an associate professor of plant protection. He is a member of many international and national research societies. He has organised two international symposia and (co)organised four national conferences in the field of plant protection. He has attended almost 30 international and 20 national conferences, workshops and seminars. Until now, he was a leader of four national scientific projects and a member of many national and international project groups. Dr. Trdan has published more than 100 scientific papers, and he or the members of his research group have given approximately 90 presentations at symposia. He was the supervisor of four PhD theses, six MSc theses and approximately 70 undergraduate theses. He was a reviewer of more than 50 scientific papers from the field of agricultural entomology or plant protection. His fields of interest are agricultural entomology and zoology, integrated pest management, biological control and other alternatives for controlling plant pests and the efficacy of insecticides.

Contents

**Preface IX**

**Section 1 Non-Target Effects of Insecticides 1**

**Occupational Workers 57**

**Aquatic Communities 83**

**Section 2 Integrated Methods for Pest Control 143**

Žiga Laznik and Stanislav Trdan

**Insecticides Optimization 175**

José Vargas de Oliveira

**Exposure 103** Mahdi Banaee

Alexa C. Alexander and Joseph M. Culp

Chapter 4 **Physiological Dysfunction in Fish After Insecticides**

**Slovenia Using Pheromone Traps 145**

Chapter 1 **Side Effects of Insecticides on Natural Enemies and Possibility of Their Integration in Plant Protection Strategies 3**

Chapter 2 **Pesticide-Residue Relationship and Its Adverse Effects on**

Chapter 3 **Predicting the Effects of Insecticide Mixtures on Non-Target**

Chapter 5 **Research on Seasonal Dynamics of 14 Different Insects Pests in**

Chapter 6 **The Use of Behavioral Manipulation Techniques On Synthetic**

Chapter 7 **The Performance of Insecticides – A Critical Review 195** Christian Nansen and Thomas James Ridsdill-Smith

Solange Maria de França, Mariana Oliveira Breda, Cesar A. Badji and

Nabil El-Wakeil, Nawal Gaafar, Ahmed Sallam and Christa Volkmar

Nabil El-Wakeil, Shehata Shalaby, Gehan Abdou and Ahmed Sallam
