Pesticides+Assignment

1. A pest is an injurious plant or animal, especially one harmful to humans. A pesticide is a chemical preperation for destroying a plant, fungal, or animal pest. A biological pesticide is a natural way used to target pests. A chemical pesticide is any substance or mixture used for preventing, destroying or controlling any pest.

2. There are several cons for the use of pesticides. One of the cons for pesticide use is that the chemicals can polute the water, causing different animals to be affected. Another con is that sometimes the use of pesticides can completely wipe out a species in an area. The last con is that every year each resistant species are elvolving.

Pesticides can also be very helpful for gardeners or other people. The first pro for pesticide use is that using pesticides eliminates kills several harmful or annoying pests. Another pro is that pesticides can kill many paracites as well as pests. Pesticides are not good for the enviorment, but they are still used all the time.

3. There are a few natural ways that we can control pest problems. One method that can be used to control pests in an area is introducing predators from other parts of the world. This has proven to be useful for pest control. Another method is you can sterilize the male pests species in a laboratory. This prevents them from making offspring with the females when they mate. The most succesful way is trapping chemicals in an area. This sterilizes the males and prevents them all from mating with the females. Ali and Angel