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  2. List of common household pests - Wikipedia

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    The house fly is found all over the world where humans live and so is the most widely distributed insect. [1]This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors or causing other harms in human habitation.

  3. Home-stored product entomology - Wikipedia

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    This beetle is similar to the saw-toothed grain beetles in both habits and types of products infested. It is a serious pest in flour mills and wherever cereal products and other dried products are stored and/or processed. Generally, the beetle is attracted to grain with a high moisture content, and usually causes the grain to acquire a grayish ...

  4. Economic entomology - Wikipedia

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    The Florida entomologist Wilmon Newell was a pioneer of pest control as was Clarence Preston Gillette. In India, Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher succeeded Harold Maxwell-Lefroy and Lionel de Nicéville as Imperial Entomologist and wrote Some South Indian insects and other animals of importance considered especially from an economic point of view ...

  5. PEST analysis - Wikipedia

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    In business analysis, PEST analysis (political, economic, social and technological) is a framework of external macro-environmental factors used in strategic management and market research. PEST analysis was developed in 1967 by Francis Aguilar as an environmental scanning framework for businesses to understand the external conditions and ...

  6. Pest (organism) - Wikipedia

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    A pest is any living thing which humans consider troublesome to themselves, their possessions, or the environment. [1] Pests can cause issues with crops, human or animal health, buildings, and wild areas or larger landscapes. [2] An older usage of the word "pest" is of a deadly epidemic disease, specifically plague.

  7. Pyrethroid - Wikipedia

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    Fenvalerate, which was developed in 1972, is one such example and was the first commercialized pyrethroid without that group. Pyrethroids which lack an α-cyano group are often classified as type I pyrethroids and those with it are called type II pyrethroids. Pyrethroids that have a common name starting with "cy" have a cyano group and are type II.

  8. Entomopathogenic fungus - Wikipedia

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    [20] [5] In classical biological control, there are two demonstrated examples of potential use of entomopathogenic fungi against exotic insect species affecting agriculture. The oldest example is the use of Entomophthora maimaiga against the Spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) in the United States during early 1900s. The spongy moth was introduced ...

  9. List of invasive species in North America - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of invasive species in North America.A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location ...