Abaut pest control

Summary

Purpose 02

Introduction 03

Theoretical framework 05

Conclusion 20

Bibliography 21

Purpose

The purpose of this project is to show all kinds of pest control and the importance it has to humans and animals.

In this work I will show: * Cultural Control * Biological Control * Breeding for Host Resistance * Legal & Regulatory Control * Physical & Mechanical Control * Eugenics & Birth Control * Chemical Control – Semiochemicals * Chemical Control – Conventional Insecticides * Integrated Control

Introduction The history of pest control probably began with the first human who ever swatted a mosquito or picked off a louse. From the fossil record, we know that all major types of biting flies and external parasites already existed by the time Homo sapiens first appeared on earth. Phthirus and Pediculus, the two genera of lice that feed on humans, have a host range that is limited to primates (apes and monkeys). And we suspect that human fleas (Pulex irritans) and bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) adopted cave-dwellers as hosts because these insects are most closely related to other species that live on bats. But since our primitive ancestors