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The protection of agricultural crops, forest, and man and his domestic animals from annoyance and damage by various kinds of pests remains a chronic problem. As we endeavor to improve pro duction processes and to develop more effective and acceptable tactics for achieving this protection, we must give high priority to all potentially useful techniques for the control and management of insects. Pest control is recognized as an acceptable and necessary part of modern agriculture. Methods employed vary greatly and tend to reflect compromises involving 3 determining factors: technological capability, economic feasibility, and social acceptability. How ever, these factors are also subject to change with time since each involves value judgments that are based on available information, cost, benefit considerations, the seriousness of the pest problem, and the political climate. Whatever method is chosen, energy resources continue to dwindle under the impact of increasing popu lation, and it is inevitable that greater reliance must be placed upon renewable resources in pest management. One alternative is the use of a pest management method that uses the energy of the pest's own biomass to fuel a self-perpetuating control system. The use of biological control agents for the control of pests has long been an integral part of the pest management strategy in crop production and forestry and in the protection of man and animals. The importance and unique advantages of the method are well recognized; numerous treatises deal with accomplishments and methodologies.
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Book Title: Biological Control by Augmentation of Natural Enemies
Book Subtitle: Insect and Mite Control with Parasites and Predators
Editors: R. L. Ridgway, S. B. Vinson
Series Title: Environmental Science Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2871-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1977
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-2873-5Published: 01 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-2871-1Published: 08 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 480
Topics: Plant Pathology