Insect pests of potato.

Abstract This chapter aims to introduce pests and categories of pests of nearly global significance, to discuss important management considerations, and to provide a set of useful references as starting points in the potato entomology literature. The four key principles to integrated pest management (IPM) programmes are described, i.e. pest identification, monitoring, control action guidelines or economic injury levels, and management of the pest. Some general concepts relative to good cultural and chemical pest management as a component of IPM are discussed. Is is suggested that a combination of the general principles of potato insect management and direct observations of local agroecosystems will give crop managers most of the knowledge necessary to minimize crop damage successfully and maintain profitability.