EVALUATE CROP DAMAGE CAUSED

Evaluate Crop Damage Causes

Evaluate Crop Damage Causes

Introduction

Every minute of the day and night billions of insects are masticating, imbibing, biting, and boring away at our crops, livestock, timber, flower beds, homes, mills, warehouses, and ourselves. How much impairment they do is hard to say. Many variables and perplexing components are involved. The impairment by one kind of insect to a crop differs from year to year and from one locality to another.

Pests' origin deficiency in uncounted ways. The infestations lessen the yield of crops, lower the excellence, raise the cost of production and harvesting, and require outlays for materials and equipment to apply control measures. The products must be screened or cleaned to eliminate insects or insect fragments; cleaned, brushed, trimmed, or otherwise treated to eliminate insecticide residues; and ranked to eliminate or else allow for injury. Livestock pests lower the production of meat and milk and the value of hides (Baur, 2006).

Mosquitoes, dwelling soars, ticks, and fleas exact a toll in human diseases and in efficiency and cash time lost from work, the cost of partitions on homes, interference with the cultivation or harvesting of plantings, the loss of enterprise at holiday resort places. Insects' origin direct losses to timber production. They also source indirect ones: The fire perils of insect-killed trees in the forest, the effect on conservation, spoiling of beauty in parks and other scenic areas and on streets and properties in towns and cities. Food and homes suffer. Insects attack kernels while they are in ranch storage and in transit and while they are retained in elevators.

Methods of control

Once it is established that an insect is causing economic losses, it becomes essential to command it. The first principle underlying the control of an insect is its correct identification. When it is ...