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Physical Control: An Important Tool in Pest Management Programs

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Biorational Control of Arthropod Pests

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Various methods of physically controlling arthropod pests are simultaneously both the oldest techniques and a current source of innovation. Unlike pesticides, there is no need for governmental regulation/registration with the concomitant need to spend millions of dollars satisfying environmental and animal toxicology, food safety and efficacy requirements. The focus of this discussion will be on pre-harvest agricultural practices (Table 1) in North America and Europe; there are two recent extensive reviews of pre- and post-harvest physical control methods (Vincent et al. 2008 and Vincent et al. 2009). Physical control methods work well with either pesticide-centered, genetic resistance or biological control-centered integrated management strategies.

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    Phyllis G. Weintraub

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Weintraub, P.G. (2009). Physical Control: An Important Tool in Pest Management Programs. In: Ishaaya, I., Horowitz, A. (eds) Biorational Control of Arthropod Pests. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2316-2_12

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