The author presents a balanced case concerning the advantages and disadvantages of the chemical control of pests, using a wide variety of examples in a historical context.

This book offers comprehensive guidance for the treatment of any pest problem likely to be encountered in museums, archives and historic houses.

This volume offers a vision and strategies for creating a solid, comprehensive knowledge base to support a pest management system that incorporates ecosystem processes supplemented by a continuum of inputsâ€"biological organisms, ...

The information in this book helps answer consumers’ concern about pesticide residues in food by providing helpful IPM and alternative approaches for pest management.

Are there barriers to cooperation among the different pest control specialists? This book attempts to answer these questions, examining past events and projecting likely impacts on contemporary pest management systems.

Society and pest control; The quest for innovation in agricultural entomology; The economic milieu of pest control: have past priorities changed?

Integrated control of pests was practiced early in this century, well before anyone thought to call it "integrated control" or, still later, "integrated pest management" (IPM), which is the subject of this book by Mary Louise Flint and the ...

... Advantages. and. Disadvantages. of. Microbial. Pest. Control. Products. in. IPM. Programmes. The use of a MPCP has the following advantages: they are ... Disadvantages of Microbial Pest Control Products in IPM Programmes 7.5 Costs of IPM ...

... pest control methods Method Advantages Disadvantages Cultural control Low cost (in most cases). Effects on non-target organisms minimal. No toxicity or residue problems. Not always applicable. May not be sufficiently effective. Usually ...