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Before we are able to get into trying to understand whether biological pest control may be the answer to the pest-control related environmental concerns, it could be proper to provide ourselves just a little background information on this whole pest control business; for the benefit of those who may be encountering it for the first time. Now, pests are organisms (typically insects) that are injurious to the interests of individuals who refer to them therefore. Thus to farmers, the insects that invade and consume their crops (whether in the fields or during storage), would be termed as pests. Alternatively, the 'domestic insects' that have a tendency to screw up with things in domestic settings (like moths, that can screw up with cloths in storage), are seen as pests by housekeepers. Worth remember is that although most pests are insects, there are also quite are number which are non-insects: with the likes of rodents (that can screw up with crops in farms of things stored in domestic settings) being seen as pests too, the truth that they are not insects notwithstanding. Having seen that pests are injurious, it would be natural that individuals who eventually 'fall victim' to them would want to remove them. In the meantime, individuals who haven't yet fallen victim to pests would be keen to avoid such a 'fate.' Hosting pests, incidentally, can be a serious fate: thousands of hectares of farmland have already been regarded as wasted by pests in a single day, resulting in losses that often run into millions of dollars. It's the steps taken to avoid pest invasion then, or even to resolve pest invasion if it has already taken place, that are known as constituting pest control. Now pest control takes various forms, based on the pests one is trying to get rid of (or to prevent the invasion of). And while bigger pests like rodents may be controlled through mechanical means like trapping, for an extended period of time, it really is chemical control which has worked for the vast majority of pests, which tend to be insects as previous mentioned. The chemicals used in this endeavor are what are termed as pesticides. Even though pesticides are usually very effective in pest-control, the downside in their mind tends to come up when we think about the fact that they tend to be extremely environmentally unfriendly. Worth remember, at this point, is the proven fact that the chemicals known as pesticides are generally very potent ones. So it often happens that traces of these remain where these were used, even with the pests have died. Those traces are eventually washed down to the water bodies where they wreck great havoc to the (non pest) plants and animals resident in the water bodies. It is concern concerning this environmental impact of chemical pest-control that resulted in questions concerning whether a far more environmentally friend method for controlling pests couldn't be developed. The outcome was the exploration of alternatives like the biological pest control, which we have been trying to see whether it is really the response to concerns raised about (chemical- based) pest control. In pest control for wasps -control, it really is other organisms that are known to be predators to the ones viewed as pest which are unleashed upon the said pests; eating them up and for that reason resolving the problem with pests. Thus if the troublesome pests are aphids, the other organisms that are recognized to prey on aphids are introduced in to the field where the problem is, to feed on the aphids, rather than spraying an environmentally unfriendly chemical. The issue with biological pest-control, though, is that it is commonly of questionable efficiency. While chemical pest control is commonly thorough, leaving no pests and even traces of them, in biological pest control, that can't quite be assured. Implementing biological pest control on a large scale basis (for instance on a thousand hectare plantation) can also prove to be a herculean task. Ultimately, it really is considerations like these which make us keep on thinking about more environmentally friendly pest control approaches. This is due to biological pest control, while definitely as an approach that addresses environmentally friendly concerns raised about chemical pest control, it generally does not seem to be efficient (or scalable) enough, in most people people's view.