Biological Pest Control Articles & Analysis
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So you have to be really on your game in terms of dust control.” The other major pest for grapevines in California is the vine mealybug, which transmits the leaf roll virus. ...
We have previously discussed soil degradation and now turn our attention to agricultural waste and pollution. As the population of the world increases so does the demand for food. This in turn leads to pressure on those in the agricultural sector to increase yields whilst doing so at affordable pricing. This has caused farmers to abandon traditional methods in favour of the intensive farming we ...
Monoculture cropping frequently associated with GMOs brings a host of other concerns: loss of biological pest control (requiring more pesticides), reduced soil fertility (requiring more fertilizer), and strain on nutrition and food security when traditional crop varieties are displaced by GM varieties or contaminated by their pollen. And the ...
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Voracious insectivores, bats are known to have huge value in controlling crop pests generally: The economic return on their nighttime insect-eating services has been estimated at about US$23 billion per year for the U.S. alone, and research has shown that bats can help control pests in cotton fields and pecan groves in Texas, ...
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Platnick, who studies arachnids at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, where a live spider exhibit debuted this month (Washington Post). “Spiders are primary controllers of insects. Without spiders, all of our crops would be consumed by those ...
The biodigester is the heart of the system, removing over 60% of the BOD (biological oxygen demand) and COD (chemical oxygen demand) of the waste within 3 to 6 days through anaerobic processes. ...
GM crops in commercial cultivation mainly express two traits — herbicide tolerance and pest resistance. These traits promise higher yields with lower pesticide use. ...
Bt-cotton seed has been effective to control the damage of bollworm in Chinese cotton production since 1999, reducing the need for pesticides and increasing incomes of Chinese farmers. Field data collected in 2004 indicates that these benefits have been eroded by increasing the use of pesticides aimed to control secondary pests. The combination ...
There are several possible technologies and alternatives to reduce the adverse impact of these chemicals on the environment, such as biological control of pests, integrated pest management, development of pest-resistant varieties of crops, vermiculture. etc., that need to be supplemented through an economic ...
The EU's Fifth Environmental Action Programme (5EAP) sets out a series of targets for the year 2000, including 'the significant reduction in pesticide use per unit of land under production, and conversion to methods of integrated pest control, at least in areas of importance for nature conservation'. ...