Biological Control of Agricultural Pests

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Apr 1955 English Publisher:University of California PressJournal:The American Biology Teacher, volume 17, pages 134-136 (issn: 0002-7685,

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Authors: Richard L. Doutt;

doi: 10.2307/4438698

Biological Control of Agricultural Pests

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The use of natural enemies to suppress agoricultural pests is called biological control. Its practical value was first demonstrated in California in 1889 in a very spectacular fashion. The citrus industry was then threatened with ruin from the ravages of the destructive cottony cushion scale. This insect was killing the trees and forcing the growers to abandon citrus as a commercial enterprise, but in the short period of one year the insect was completely controlled by a predaceous ladybird beetle imported from Australia.

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