PEST CONTROL
UNIT 5 – PEST CONTROL A. AREAS OF INFESTATION B. PREVENTION MEASURES C. CONTROL AND ERADICATION MEASURES PEST CONTROL Pests : Under ordinary conditions of nature, any creature, it may be animal, insect or plant, can only exist in such numbers as can succeed in evading natural enemies, in finding adequate food supply and in securing shelter and suitable conditions for breeding. If these conditions be disturbed, there is immediate response in the survival rate-up or down. As the case may be, and in general it is only when the favourable factors-sometimes quite obscure and therefore, difficult to counter act-become excessive that the creature develops into a pest . These considerations lead to an obvious deduction that if favourable factors can be traced and either removed or counter balanced with unfavourable conditions introduced by human agency, a fair amount of control over the pest ...