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A pest is any animal (or plant) that is detrimental to humans or human interests.
Farming pests include things such as insects (eg. midges, mosquitoes, caterpillars, crickets, locusts), mammals (eg. mice, rats, foxes), birds (eg. crows) and weeds (eg. Bermuda grass, ragweed).
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What pesticides are used to kill insect pests?
Pesticides are used to prevent, kill and repel pests. The pesticides used to kill insects are attractants, fumigants, insecticides, pheromones and repellents.
What are insect pests of Tectona grandis?
Hyblaea puera Cramer (Very Serious pests on teak plantation) Eutectona machaeralis
What are biological control of pests?
Biological control is the beneficial action of predators, parasites, pathogens, and competitors in controlling pests and their damage.
How does knowing about inheritance help farmers and food produce?
Farmers learned to be careful in choosing the plants and animals used for breeding. The breeding of plants or animals with desirable traits in order to produce more offspring with those traits is called selective breeding. Using selective breeding results in better crops.Some of the crops resists pests and diseases.Other crops are bigger,stay fresh longer, or taste better.
What is bio pesticides?
Bio Pesticides EPA definition: Biopesticides include naturally occurring substances that control pests (biochemical pesticides), microorganisms that control pests (microbial pesticides), and pesticidal substances produced by plants containing added genetic material (plant-incorporated protectants) or PIPs. Basically a Bio Pesticide is anything designed to kill pests that is made out of microorganisms or derived from microoganisms.
What do farmers call the chemicles that they use to kill insect pests called?
Chemicals used by farmers to kill insect pests are called pesticides.
How is crop rotation important to farmers?
it helps control pests and diseases
Why do farmers kill pests on farms?
Because the pests damage the farmer's crops, causing him to lose yield and not make as much money.
Which two chemicals the farmers used to ward off pests?
DDT and PPC.
How did the farmers deal with the issue of slavery?
slaves were farmers.
What problems did Egyptian farmers face?
similar problems farmers face today- mainly irrigation and dealing with crop destroying pests
Why do farmers pet secretary birds?
to kill snakes, rats and other pests in their fields.
What are the challenges faced by emerging farmers?
pests, quality of seed, weather and soil
How do intensive farmers control pests?
the keep them in a acage set up to their own temperatur and etc.
What do farmers use to contol pests on an organic farm?
Crop rotation and approved organic pesticides.
What were made to farmers homeowners and exporters by new deal measures?
Loans were made to farmers, homeowners, and exporters by New Deal measures.
What is the name of the chemical that farmers use to keep pests away?
Pesticides. What exactly they are.. well, there are various types.
