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Manage Insects on Your Farm: A Guide To Ecological Strategies

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Ecological pest management employs tactics that have existed in natural ecosystems for thousands of years. Since the beginning of agriculture — indeed, long before then — plants co-evolved with pests and with the
natural enemies of those pests. As plants developed inherent protective mechanisms against pests, they were helped by numerous partners in the ecosystem, for example:
1. Beneficial insects that attack crop insects and mites by chewing them up or sucking out their juices
2. Beneficial parasites, which commandeer pests for habitat or food
3. Disease-causing organisms, including fungi, bacteria, viruses, protozoa and nematodes that fatally sicken insects or keep them from feeding or reproducing. These organisms also attack weeds.
4. Insects such as ground beetles that eat weed seeds
5. Beneficial fungi and bacteria that inhabit root surfaces, blocking attack by disease organisms

By integrating these natural strategies into your farming systems, you can manage pests in a way that is healthier for the environment and eliminates many of the problems associated with agrichemical use. Knowing the life cycles of pests and understanding their natural enemies allows you to better manipulate the system to enhance, rather than detract from, the built-in defenses available in nature. Another National Academy of Science report (1996), Ecologically Based Pest Management (EBPM), stated that EBPM “should be based on a broad knowledge of the agro-ecosystem and will seek to manage rather than eliminate pests” in ways that are “profitable, safe, and durable.”

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Judul Seri

Sustainable Agriculture Network handbook series; bk.7

No. Panggil

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Penerbit

Barc-West : Sustainable Agriculture Network., 2005

Deskripsi Fisik

SB975A48 2005 632’.96--dc22 2005013726, vii, 119 hlm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

1888626100

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Subjek

PENGENDALIAN HAMA TERPADU
EKOLOGI PERTANIAN
TEKNIK EKOLOGI

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