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biological control

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biological control
n.
Control of pests by disrupting their ecological status, as through the use of organisms that are natural predators, parasites, or pathogens. Also called biocontrol.
biological control
Noun
the control of destructive organisms, esp. insects, by nonchemical means, such as introducing a natural predator of the pest
biological control
Control of pests by disrupting their ecological status, as through the use of organisms that are natural predators, parasites, or pathogens. Examples of biocontrol include the use of ladybugs to prey on aphids and scale insects and the treatment of turf with spores of the bacterium Bacillus popilliae, which cause milky disease in Japanese beetle larvae.


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Address for correspondence: Marius Gilbert, Biological Control and Spatial Ecology, Free University of Brussels, CP 160/12, Av FD Roosevelt 50, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium; email: mgilbert@ulb.
Anatidae migration in the western Palearctic and spread of highly ... by Slingenbergh, Jan / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Classical biological control calls for unleashing the microbes onto a targeted weed to fight it, but Chee-Sanford has a different tactic in mind.
The Fungicide Boost by Wenzel, Wayne / Farm Journal
Also on the biological control front, researchers may have found a way to control--even eradicate--the boaters' bane, hydrilla, using a fungus that can kill this nuisance aquatic weed.
Silver bullets for nasty species? by BOAT/U.S. Magazine
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