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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.
Biological pest control is a rapidly expanding field of agriculture, where natural agents, primarily parasitoids and predators are used to control a pest organism that has been causing economic harm to human interests. These methods can be as alternatives or supplements to conventional pest control methods such as insecticides.
Biological pest control is a method of controlling pests such as insects and mites by using other organisms. [12] It relies on predation , parasitism , herbivory , parasitody or other natural mechanisms, but typically also involves an active human management role.
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. They are obtained from organisms including plants, bacteria and other microbes, fungi, nematodes, etc.
Insects used as insect pest control agents (1 C, 92 P) Pages in category "Biological control agents of pest insects" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Biological pest control insects (6 C, 5 P) Biopesticides (1 C, 34 P) F. Fungal pest control agents (14 P) I. Biological control agents of pest insects (1 C, 15 P)
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