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    Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals...
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    Pest control is the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest; such as any animal, plant or fungus that impacts adversely on human activities...
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    Integrated pest management (IPM), also known as integrated pest control (IPC) that integrates both chemical and non-chemical practices for economic control of...
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  • integrated pest control. It means only the use of physical means to control pests. Biological pest control Kaolin spray "Mechanical pest explanation"...
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  • been used for centuries for the biological pest extermination of household insects, garden pests, and agricultural pests. It may first have been exported...
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    maintaining natural pest control is important to humanity's ability to grow crops. It can also be applied within horticulture. Biological pest control can reduce...
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  • would be impossible using physical control. Pest control Biological pest control Garden guns Mechanical pest control Mahr, D. L., and N. M. Ridgway."The...
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    (family Syrphidae), which are useful as biological pest control agents because they eat aphids and other pests. Seeds Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names...
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    parasitoids and predators have been introduced as biological control agents in attempts to help control this moth. Beginning in the late 1800s, at least...
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  • Inundative application (category Biological pest control)
    application of a biological control or natural enemy of a pest refers to the release of overwhelming numbers of a mass-produced biological control agent in the...
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    Acmella oleracea is a species of flowering herb in the family Asteraceae. Common names include toothache plant, Szechuan buttons, paracress, jambu, buzz...
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    naturally control agricultural pests. Some are applied commercially in biological pest control, starting in the 1920s with Encarsia formosa to control whitefly...
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  • A Biopesticide is a biological substance or organism that damages, kills, or repels organisms seens as pests. Biological pest management intervention...
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    interest in further research to improve the use of green lacewings as biological pest control. Species that have hitherto attracted wider study and are more...
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    important because several species have been used as agents of biological pest control, and because several are known as invasive species. In general...
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    considered pests, such that it can provide biological pest control in agricultural settings. It is not solely able to suppress any populations of a pest species...
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    Hippodamia convergens (category Biological pest control beetles)
    primary food resource. Aphids are a known pest, so the H. convergens has been used as a method to control aphids by releasing the beetles to act as a...
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  • shortened to resurgence in pest management contexts, can be described as a constraint of pesticide use, by which they fail to control pests such as insects and...
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    Fenemore PG (2016). "Chapter 7: Mites and other non-insect pests". Plant Pests and Their Control. Elsevier. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-4831-8286-5. Harrison S, Knott...
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    Trichogramma (category Biological pest control wasps)
    minutum has been investigated as a method of biological control of the Choristoneura fumiferana, a major pest of spruce and fir forests. Nine species of...
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    Chilocorus stigma (category Biological pest control beetles)
    groves. It is beneficial against non native species. An introduced Hemlock pest, the elongate hemlock scale (Fiorinia externa Ferris), which has been doing...
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    Encarsia formosa (category Biological pest control wasps)
    greenhouse whitefly, one of the first to be used commercially for biological pest control, from the 1920s. Its use fell with commercial pesticides in the...
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    Adalia bipunctata (category Biological pest control beetles)
    states and provinces. It is commonly introduced and imported as a biological control agent. The two-spotted ladybird was one of the many species originally...
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  • conventional one they are used to. Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites,...
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    Sceliphron caementarium (category Biological pest control wasps)
    Sceliphron caementarium, also known as the yellow-legged mud-dauber wasp, black-and-yellow mud dauber (within the US), or black-waisted mud-dauber (outside...
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    Dead hedge (category Biological pest control)
    can be used to create habitats for natural 'biological control agents' to provide biological pest control.[citation needed] They have roles in the tending...
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    Aphelinus mali (category Biological pest control wasps)
    pest of apple trees. It is native to the northeastern United States but has been introduced to other parts of the world as a biological pest control agent...
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  • error Control variables, variables which are kept constant during an experiment Biological pest control, a natural method of controlling pests Control network...
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    Coleomegilla maculata (category Biological pest control beetles)
    predation. Augmentative biological control recognises that lady beetles may be present but may be insufficient in numbers to control the pest species and seeks...
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    Tachinidae (category Insects used as insect pest control agents)
    important natural enemies of major insect pests, and some species actually are used in biological pest control; for example, some species of tachinid flies...
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