When a bird swoops down and grabs a caterpillar devouring your backyard garden, you might view it as a clear victory for natural pest control. But what if that caterpillar is infected with larvae from ...
Vegalab (vegalab.com) is a company that has developed biopesticides that highlight a select group of plant and fungal extracts for their pest control properties. Biological control, where compounds ...
Ecological Bulletins, No. 31, Environmental Protection and Biological Forms of Control of Pest Organisms (1980), pp. 103-109 (7 pages) A general discussion of the use of predators and parasites for ...
Biological control involves the utilisation of natural predators, parasites and pathogens to suppress pest populations, while Integrated Pest Management (IPM) combines biological methods with cultural ...
The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Dec., 1992), pp. 525-532 (8 pages) The numerous species and geographic isolates of entomopathogenic nematodes have a diversity of biological attributes which ...
An international team of scientists, involving entomologists, conservation biologists, agro-ecologists and geographers, has just revealed how on-farm biological control can slow the pace of tropical ...
Biological control is the management of pests and their damage by the beneficial action of parasites (parasitoids), pathogens, and predators. These beneficial organisms, collectively, are named ...
Extension is investigating methods to combat the western bean cutworm, a significant threat to corn and dry bean crops.
The predatory mirid bug, Nesidiocoris tenuis, which preys on agricultural pests, is used as a biological control agent. This discovery has significant implications for biological control which ...
Biological control offers an attractive alternative to chemical molluscicides in the management of pest slugs, with nematodes emerging as promising biocontrol agents. Among these, species within the ...
The study of the B. thuringiensis spray in Canada in 1999 provides data that refutes arguments asserting that there are technological barriers that would prevent all but major military programs from ...
Growing your own seasonal food helps to supply you with fresh produce and nutrition. We all know vegetables, fruits, and nuts are the life blood for healthy human life. Beneficial insect species play ...
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