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  2. Biological pest control - Wikipedia

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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 or plants by using other organisms. [1] It relies on predation , parasitism , herbivory , or other natural mechanisms, but typically also involves an active human management role.

  3. Mosquito control - Wikipedia

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    Mosquito control is a vital public-health practice throughout the world and especially in the tropics because mosquitoes spread many diseases, such as malaria and the Zika virus. Mosquito-control operations are targeted to multiple problems: Nuisance mosquitoes bother people around homes or in parks and recreational areas;

  4. Integrated pest management - Wikipedia

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    Risk assessment usually includes four issues: 1) characterization of biological control agents, 2) health risks, 3) environmental risks and 4) efficacy. [23] Mistaken identification of a pest may result in ineffective actions.

  5. List of laboratory biosecurity incidents - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization later shut down the lab. [61] 2014 Dengue South Korea A 30-year-old female laboratory worker in South Korea working at a BSL-2 was infected with Dengue through a needlestick injury. [62] 2016 Zika virus: United States Researcher infected with zika virus in a laboratory accident at University of Pittsburgh. [63] 2016

  6. Category:Biological pest control - Wikipedia

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    Human disturbance of ecology ecological systems, particularly the development of monoculture and the movement of species tends to stimulate pest problems by reducing biodiversity which usually has natural controls that keep pest populations in line. Biological pest control does not seek to eradicate pests, but to keep them to economically ...

  7. Pest control - Wikipedia

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    By the 1960s, problems of resistance to chemicals and damage to the environment began to emerge, and biological control had a renaissance. Chemical pest control is still the predominant type of pest control today, although a renewed interest in traditional and biological pest control developed towards the end of the 20th century and continues ...

  8. Biopesticide - Wikipedia

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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 involves predatory, parasitic, or chemical relationships.

  9. Biosecurity - Wikipedia

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    A microbiologist working on the reconstructed virus of the 1918 Spanish Flu, using a fume hood for biocontainment. [1]Biosecurity refers to measures aimed at preventing the introduction or spread of harmful organisms (e.g. viruses, bacteria, plants, animals etc.) intentionally or unintentionally outside their native range or within new environments.