Biological, Cultural and Chemical Methods of Pest Control
Pests are termed to being the biggest hazard that can harm a human being or the host in which it inhabits. Many people who have tried to define a pest will state that a pest is any commodity living or non living that will bring undesirable effects to a human being, plant or animal thus affecting its effectiveness. Pests will seek very many habitats and to eradicate the pest, one should have enough information on the living or nonliving thing that the pest has termed as its host.The wide classification of pest control can be done either biologically or chemically where different methods are done in each. In the recent times, pest eradication has been found to being an exercise that will want to have experts thus companies have also emerged from the same giving professional assistance on how to treat a pest.In pest control one should first learn about the pest and the different habitats that the pest finds their hosts then identify the pest that is in endangering his/ her life, animals or plants.Not all pests will have the same methods of curbing thus it is essential for one to know how to control the pest that he/ she is facing. In eradicating pests, this calls for a healthy life, and hence they are very many ways in which one can eradicate these unwanted creatures without using an expert engaging in activities such as keeping your gutters clean, ensuring food is always covered, eliminating standing water just to mention but a few.In learning the places where pests will inhabit more so the ones that do not stick to an animal or a living thing, one can eradicate the pests through cleaning and remove their habitats.
Cultural, chemical and biological are the primary classification of pest elimination in agricultural activities where the mainly used is through the cultivating of land which will help eliminate all the available disease in a land. Use of chemicals involves the use of pesticides, herbicides and all manufactured drugs that will help in killing all the drugs where this method entails consistency in making sure that the pests are done with.There are people who will use the biological way in killing pests which includes the process of introducing a parasite or predator that will help to kill the pest in question.One of the biological ways that are used in eliminating pests in agricultural firms is trap cropping where a plant is introduced in trapping pests that will come to the nearby stations that are being protected. One can also interchange the crops that one is to plant on the farm where this kills the pests as they lack the host and just die from the starvation.
Pest eradication should be a productive activity depending on the method that the pest controller is using.