Citation:

Keng Hong Tan, Chua Tock Hing, Lim Guan Soon, Aun Chuan Peter Ooi, KI Sudderuddin. 1982. The ecology of pests: insects. Protection Ecology 4: 179-199.

Keywords: factors regulating insect pest populations are discussed under broad headings: natural (density-independent, density-dependent and inverse density-dependent factors) as well as man-initiated (cultural practices, habitat modification, and pesticide stress). Population modelling. Case study of the diamond-backed moth Plutella xylostella in Malaysia to illustrate the population regulating factors