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Soil amendments suppress migratory pests and enhance yields. [PDF]

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Touré M   +6 more
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Pest Control: Risks of Biochemical Pesticides

Science, 2013
In the special section on Smarter Pest Control (16 August, p. [728][1]), scientists propose smarter and safer pesticides. One increasingly popular solution that the section did not discuss is biochemical pesticides.
Gefei, Hao, Guangfu, Yang
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Pests and pesticides, risk and risk aversion

1989
Theoretical and applied literature on risk in decision making for agricultural pest control is reviewed. Risk can affect pesticide decision making either because of risk aversion or because of its influence on expected profit. It is concluded that risk does not necessarily lead to increased pesticide use by individual farmers.
Pannell, David J, Pannell, David J
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Minimizing pest risk in dwellings

Structural Survey, 1996
Explains ways to mitigate the effects of various species of pests in dwellings, dealing with three distinct groups ‐ insects, rodents and birds. There are now many other species, apart from fleas, lice and bedbugs, which have evolved to capitalize on the more recent environmental modifications which man has undertaken.
R.G. Murphy, S. Todd
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Extracting Pest Risk Information from Risk Assessment Documents

2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2019
Outbreaks of plant pests and pathogens have the potential to significantly harm the Canadian economy, damage the environment, detrimentally affect the health of citizens, and threaten national food security. Loss of trees caused by the Emerald Ash Borer pest had a significant public health impact due to an increase in mortality related to ...
Glen Newton   +4 more
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Pest Risk Evaluation in Regulatory Entomology

Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America, 1983
In the United States, regulatory plant protection, often referred to as regulatory entomology or plant quarantine, has historically been concerned with preventing the introduction of plant pests into the United States as well as preventing interstate and intrastate dissemination of these organisms.
G. C. Rohwer, D. L. Williamson
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