<div style='margin-bottom: 20px;'> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-radius: 1rem; padding: 10px 20px;"> <h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What are the primary methods used in biological control to manage pests?</h2> <p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Predation, parasitism, and other natural mechanisms.</p> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-radius: 1rem; padding: 10px 20px;"> <h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What practices are involved in the conservation strategy of biological control?</h2> <p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Avoiding harmful cultural practices, maintaining diversity, habitat manipulation, and protection from pesticides.</p> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-radius: 1rem; padding: 10px 20px;"> <h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Why is proper pest management crucial for agriculture?</h2> <p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">To ensure healthy and high-yielding crops to meet the food demand of the increasing population.</p> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-radius: 1rem; padding: 10px 20px;"> <h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What are the three basic strategies of biological control mentioned?</h2> <p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Importation, augmentation, and conservation.</p> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-radius: 1rem; padding: 10px 20px;"> <h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What distinguishes inoculative release from inundative release in the context of augmentation?</h2> <p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Inoculative release involves releasing small numbers of control agents at intervals for long-term control, while inundative release involves mass release of agents for immediate pest suppression.</p> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-radius: 1rem; padding: 10px 20px;"> <h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How does classical biological control work?</h2> <p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">By introducing a pest's natural enemy to a new location where they do not occur naturally.</p> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-radius: 1rem; padding: 10px 20px;"> <h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What makes biopesticides a desirable tool for disease management in agriculture?</h2> <p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">They control pests by nontoxic mechanisms in an eco-friendly manner and are generally less toxic to users and non-target organisms.</p> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-radius: 1rem; padding: 10px 20px;"> <h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What are the classes of biopesticides mentioned?</h2> <p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Microbial pesticides, plant-incorporated-protectants (PIPs), biochemical pesticides, botanical pesticides, and biotic agents (parasitoids and predators).</p> </div> </div>