Pest and Insect Control - Resistance Management

Pest and Insect Control Management: To give you all a brief on pests, insects and so forth, it would be ideal to go back and know your history since that is where we are coming from. This goes back into the times of horticulture. This should be about 10,000 years and for an example, let’s take the present Middle East region. Prior the days where cultivating was a mainstream and the population cultivated peas, grain, lentils, flax and more, it was a way of life. Similarly, in other parts of the world say, Africa region (Sahel), America, China did grow rice and others. So, everyone grew and did what they did best. It is clear they did suffer from pests and different sicknesses as well. This implies a huge loss of the yield or it affected humans in some way. The use of burning materials such as dung, fish, straw, etc., would bring about smoke getting throughout the crop. This also uses to avert insects and pests. The utilization of chemicals would have been one of the methods whereas others could be biological methods by introducing insects, predators that feed on the pests or even growing weeds. In those days we as a whole comprehend that there were no chemical industries, so they relied on plant or animal derivations. Now that we have come to talk about chemicals, there was Pyrethrum. Pyrethrum is derived from flowers and dry flowers. This has been used as in insecticide for over 2000 years. This is a form of a powder. Mixtures based on copper sulfate and limes are still being used as fungal diseases. The uses of sulfuric acid and sodium chloride derived from natural sources were also used in pest control. The above are inorganic substances.

What are the organic substances that are used for insects and pests?

When it comes to organic substances, we had naphthalene, nitrophenols, and chlorophenols that are used for insects and pests. This was all during the 1940s and DDT discovered prevalence in light of its expense. Similarly as it was gaining popularity, there was a report where houseflies gained resistance and furthermore reports of damage to creatures. Then came in herbicides with research continuing into the 1970s and 1980s, new groups of agrochemicals have been introduced back then where minimal use of these could get the job done. Resistance management was looked into and oversaw. With more research being done every day, the pest management league has developed and advanced to a state where genetically engineered crop produces their own insecticides or feature an obstruction. This is all large scale mostly. When it comes to your home and protecting your family, you would think harder. With a history of the pesticide or insecticide derivatives, we would still be contemplating to use one. Particularly on yourself if you are found trekking and you have a major bunch of mosquitoes or even bedbugs sucking the blood out of you, all we can think of is something which does not affect us but repel the mosquitoes and kill bed bugs. What if we say, we have a natural, herbal way to do that? Not so toxic that it kills, but it repels the mosquitoes and kills the bed bugs away from you! Made of plant extracts and aromatic oils, an herbal method to repel and be sure it’s not only safe but free of chemicals. Credits: agrochemicals.iupac