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The approach to biological control includes: a. Import and release of an insect pest to a new area to provide hosts for natural enemies b. Import and release of natural enemies from the native home of an alien insect pest that has invaded a new area c. Preservation of natural enemies (predators & parasitoids) that are already established in an area d. Use of insecticides to reduce alien insect pests to establish new equilibrium position. |
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Answer» There are three primary methods of using biological control in the FIELD: 1) conservation of existing natural enemies, 2) INTRODUCING new natural enemies and establishing a permanent population (called "classical biological control"), and 3) mass rearing and periodic release, EITHER on a seasonal basis or inundatively. |
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