Citation:

Pest control. Pages 3-26. In: Dennis S Hill. 1975. Agricultural Insect Pests of the Tropics and their Control. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England UK, 516 pages.

Keywords: definition of pest, pest populations, ecosystems, agroecosystems, development of pest status, increase in numbers, ecological change, character of food supply, monoculture, minimum cultivation techniques, multiplication of suitable habitats, loss of competing species, change of host/parasite relationships, economic change, change in demand, pest damage, direct effects of insect feeding, indirect effects of insects on crops, transmission of disease organisms, economics of pest attack and control, decision to take action, cost/potential benefit ration in decision, relation between yield increase and pesticide dosage, economics of national pest control programs, pest assessment, efficiency of pest control measures, forecasting pest attack emergence or occurrence warnings, forecasting by sampling, forecasting by prediction, methods of control, legislative methods, control of importation, quarantine, prevention of spread, physical methods, mechanical methods, use of physical factors, use of electromagnetic energy, cultural control, time of sowing, close season, time of harvesting, special cultivation methods, trap crops, crop rotation, resistant varieties, good husbandry, biological control, predators, parasitoids (=parasites), pathogens, sex pheromones, aggregation pheromones, chemical methods, pesticides, antifeedants, integrated control, pest management, eradication,