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Anyone who has ever grown so much as a flower outside has delt with animals and/or bugs who want to eat them.
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If you're raising livstock the situation is even worse.
Pest control is a matter of human [[health]] and comfort ([[mosquito control]], [[bedbugs, fleas and lice]], [[control and treatment of bedbugs]], [[control of head lice]]).


Possibly the best way to combat pests is to grow plants in a green house.
It is also an important aspect of [[agriculture]]: [[Integrated Pest Management]], questions of [[organic farming versus conventional farming]], and novel methods such as [[bee fences]] to deter elephants.


However this is also the most costly way to combat them.
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Revision as of 20:26, 5 November 2011

Pest control is a matter of human health and comfort (mosquito control, bedbugs, fleas and lice, control and treatment of bedbugs, control of head lice).

It is also an important aspect of agriculture: Integrated Pest Management, questions of organic farming versus conventional farming, and novel methods such as bee fences to deter elephants.

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