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Master Principles and Practices of Insect Pest Management – Notes, Case Studies & Practical Insights – with Rahul

Chemical control:

  • The use of chemical (Pesticide) to kill, deter, change behavior, impair sterility of influence pest for control purpose is called chemical control.

 

Genetic control method of insects:

  • Genetic control refers to employment of an insect to destroy its own kind or self-destruction of the species.
  • WHO defined as genetic control as “any condition or treatment which can reduce the reproductive potential of noxious pest by altering or replacing the heredity materials”.
  • This is also referred as autocidal control, sterile insect release method (SIRM), sterile male technique (SMT) and most commonly used as sterile insect technique (SIT).
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