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2. Sterile insect technique - Wikipedia

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   The sterile insect technique (SIT) [1] [2] is a method of biological insect control, whereby overwhelming numbers of sterile insects are released into the wild. The released insects are preferably male , as this is more cost-effective and the females may in some situations cause damage by laying eggs in the crop, or, in the case of mosquitoes ...

3. List of sterile insect technique trials - Wikipedia

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   SIT technique may be applied as part of an area-wide control (integrated pest management) approach of insects of medical, veterinary, and agricultural importance. It was in 1937 when Edward Knipling proposed using sterilization to control or eradicate insect pests after observation that screwworm fly males mate repeatedly while females mate ...

4. Integrated pest management - Wikipedia

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   They include: conservation of natural predators or augmentation of natural predators, sterile insect technique (SIT). [26] Augmentation, inoculative release and inundative release are different methods of biological control that affect the target pest in different ways. Augmentative control includes the periodic introduction of predators.

5. Insecticide - Wikipedia

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   Insect growth regulator (IGR) is a term coined to include insect hormone mimics and an earlier class of chemicals, the benzoylphenyl ureas, which inhibit chitin (exoskeleton) biosynthesis in insects [42] Diflubenzuron is a member of the latter class, used primarily to control caterpillars that are pests.

6. 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.

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