What is Pest Management?

What is Pest Management?

To know about pest management you should firstly know about what is pest? and what is management? Now I will tell you what is pest?

Pest:

A pest is a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns (as agriculture and livestock production). In other word pest is an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or things that create nuisance. You can also defined pest as any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

Management:

Management is the act or process of managing.

So, what is Pest management?

Pest Management: Pest management refers to the regulation or management of species defined as a pest, usually because of its perceived to be detrimental to a person's health, the ecology or the economy.

Types of Pest Management:

Various types of pest management are as follows:

1. Biological Pest Management: Biological Pest management is the management of pest through uses of natural Predators and Parasites. The point of biological pest management or any other natural pest control is to eliminate the pest with minimal harm to ecological balance of the environment in its present form. The treatment has no known negative consequences on the remaining ecology and it is safer for humans to drink.

2. Elimination of breeding grounds: Garbage and dirty things provide the food and shelter for many unwanted organisms, as well as an area where still water might collect and be used as a breeding ground by mosquitoes. Communities that have proper garbage collection and disposal have far less a problem with rats, cockroaches and other pests than those that don't. Open air sewers are ample breeding ground for various pests as well.

3. Poisoned Bait: Poisoned Bait is the common method for controlling pest population, however it is not effective when there are other food sources around, such as garbage. This method is used to manage several caterpillars such as- fruit flies, snails, crabs etc.

4. Field Burning: This method is used to kill off any insects or eggs that might be in the field area.

5. Hunting: In European country, when stray dogs and cats became too much numerous, local populations gather together to round up all animals that did not appear to have an owner and kill them. In some nations, teams of rat catchers work at chasing rats from the field, and killing them with dogs and simple hand tools.

6. Pesticides: Spraying pesticides by plane or trucks that carry the spraying equipment is a common method of pest management. Crop dusters commonly fly over farmland and spray pesticides to kill off the pests that would treat the crops. However some pesticides may cause cancer or any other serious disease and/or other health problems, as well as harming wildlife.

7. Fumigation: Space fumigation is a project that involves a structure be covered or sealed airtight followed by the introduction of a penetrating, deadly gas at a killing concentration a long period of time about 24 to 72 hours. It is an expensive method for long area.

8. Sterilization: Laboratory studies conducted with U-5897 ie. 3-choloro-1,2 propanediol attempted in the early 1970s although these proved unsuccessful. Research into sterilization bait is ongoing.

There have also several others methods for Pest management, but the above all are the best method for Pest management.