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1) Pest is a destructive insect or other animal that attacks crops, food, livestock, etc. A Pestiside is a substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals. 2) The pros of pesticrds get rid of the pests, its enexpensive to purchase, and they are available almost at any retail store. Pesticides kill unwanted pests like grasshoppers or flies that fly around food in restaraunts. Pesticides are very enexpensive because everyone needs them. Everyone uses pesticides if its either on their crops, gardens or even lawn grass. The good part about them being available at almost any retail store is that you dont have to look hard to find them. They are just there so you can hurry up and get those pests killed. The cons of pesticids is that its flamable. If someone throws a lit sigarette on a lawn with pesticide on it than the lawn could start on fire and that could be very bad. Another con of pesticides would be it kills the pests inhumaily. It smothers the pests and collapses there resperitory system which is a painful thing. The con of pesticids is that its very harmful if a human being swallows it. The last con is that it can burn human skin if its on there for a long time. 3) Some safe ways are cleaning up spills in your home right away and not to leave it because pests will get to it. Another is to take out garbage daily and keep garbage cans clean of food residue because the trash cans could be sticky with spilled old food and the pests will stay in there and keep reproducing. Another way is keeping ripe fruit in the fridge because fruit nats tend to fly around the food. Another is sweep and vaccum your floors at home frequently because little bugs could be inside carpet or spiders and other insects like to live in the corners of homes.