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Notes: [Subtitle: Proceedings of the First National Symposium on Pest Management in Horticultural Crops: Environmental Implications and Thrusts. Conference held at Bangalore, India, 15-17 October 1997.] A total of 89 papers were presented at the conference. These were grouped under pest management in fruits, vegetables, ornamental, spices and plantation crops, biological control, pesticide residue in horticulture crops and nematology. Papers that cover scales include IPM in spices - challenges for the future (Devasahayam, Koya & Verghese), Biological control of oriental mealybug, Planococcus lilacinus (Ckll.) on chow-chow (Krishnamoorthy & Mani), Suppression of the soft green scale Coccus viridis (Green) (Coccidae: Homoptera) on acid lime in India (Mani & Krishnamoorthy), Suppression of the soft green scale Coccus viridis (Green) (Coccidae: Homoptera) on acid lime in India (Mani, Krishnamoorthy & Verghese), Cryptolaemus montrouzieri - an effective predator of Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) on mulberry and its impact on silkworm rearing (Maribashetty, Reddy & Verghese), Population dynamics of pests of pomegranate Punica granatum Linnaeus (Shevale, Kaulgud & Verghese) and Developing a sampling plan for estimating the settler population of the guava green scale Chloropulvinaria psidii (Maskell), (Pseudococcidae: Homoptera) (Verghese & Ramachander).