Insect Pests of Fruits, Plantation, Medicinal & Aromatic Crops

2. Applied control

• Planned and organized by man to eliminate or reduce the number of insects and the damage. This includes Prophylactic or preventive measures and Curative or direct measures.
• Prophylacitc: Field sanitation, Crop rotation, resistant varieties, Preventive treatment. Curative:
1. Cultural methods – tillage, time of planting, pruning, fertilization, water management sanitation and trap crops.
2. Growing resistant varieties.
3. Mechanical methods – hand destruction, exclusion and trapping
4. Physical methods – heat, cold, humidity, energy and sound
5. Biological methods – parasitoids, predators and pathogens
6. Chemical methods – attractants, repellents, insecticides, sterilants and growth inhibitors.
7. Genetic methods – male sterile techniques.
8. Regulatory methods – quarantines, legislation