Pest control
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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 or the environment. The human response depen
An agricultural aircraft applies low-insecticide bait against western corn rootworm.
Bronze cat, Ancient Egypt (664–525 BC)
Biological pest control: parasitoid wasp (Cotesia congregata) adult with pupal cocoons on its host, a tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta (green background)
Cultivation by ploughing exposes insect pests to predators such as black-headed gulls.
Cockroach
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Cockroaches are insects belonging to the order Blattodea. About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some species are well-known pests.
Pest control
…the molluscide metaldehyde, dangerous to children and household pets. An article in Scientific American in 1885 described effective elimination of a cockroach infestation using fresh cucumber peels. Warfarin has traditionally been used to kill rodents, but many populations have developed resistance to this…
A Turkestan cockroach (Periplaneta lateralis) next to an approximately 108-million-year-old fossil cockroach from the Cretaceous Period
A 40- to 50-million-year-old cockroach in Baltic amber (Eocene)
Domino cockroach Therea petiveriana, normally found in India
Head of Periplaneta americana