Open AccessIntegrated pest management.
Author(s) -
B. G. Tweedy
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.7614165
Subject(s) - integrated pest management , pest control , pest analysis , variety (cybernetics) , pesticide , environmental planning , business , environmental health , risk analysis (engineering) , medicine , geography , computer science , biology , ecology , marketing , artificial intelligence
Integrated pest management, in which the conventional pesticides are augmented by one or more nonchemical control practices, has been receiving renewed interest. What is new in this revitalization of an old technique is the careful and more knowledgeable application of a variety of control techniques.