Plea for Sanity and Integrated Pest Management

Practical Applications of Pheromones Status and Projections A. Plea for Sanity and Integrated Pest Management 

The world is never without prophets and during this era, several spoke and they—in the usual manner of prophets—spoke in vain. Development of resistance to insecticides was the first theme of the 

Biological control through manipulation of predators, parasites, and disease organisms. 

Use of behavior modifying chemicals, of which pheromones and pheromone analogs are most important (507, 510—517). 

Gradually the concept of Integrated Pest Management developed as an integration of all of the factors impinging on the pest control decision so as to determine when control should be practiced and what would comprise the best method or combination of methods to employ (510). Synthetic chemical pesticides would be relegated to an appropriate role within a holistic program that considers entire ecosystems. 

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