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2.  Even before man existed on this earth,
there were pests that existed peacefully
and continued to do so when man came
into existence. Humans at one time
were hunters and gathers and probably
saw insects and other pests more as a
source of food rather than a nuisance.
 When humans began to develop
settlements and grow their food, they
began to notice pests eating at their
lively hood and began developing plans
for some kind of control of what has
now become a problem, and they
developed ways of getting rid of the
pests.

3.  In some areas, other pests that were enemies of the
type of pests eating at the food were used as pest
control. In ancient China, ants were used as a control
to remove caterpillars that were destroying plants and
even helped the ants along by building easy ways for
ants to get to the caterpillars by fashioning a road of
sorts made out of limbs or bamboo to allow the ants to
crawl into the plants. Fire was used to drive locusts
away in ancient Egypt as well as humans grouping
together shouting and flailing their arms to scare the
pests away.

4.  The ancients also used chemical compounds they
made from such things as wormwood and various
other items. Some of them worked, but more often
than not, they didn’t. Arsenic and sulfur have been
used and are still used today. Arsenic is well known to
kill ants.

5.  During the 18th century, traps were used
to trap flies and other insects. Flytraps
were made of wood and baited with
something sweet. When enough flies
were gathered, a spring was released and
trapped the flies.
 Some flea traps worked on the same
principle, but became quite the fashion
accessory as they were made of some
precious metal, such as silver. However,
they trapped fleas because the necklaces
were perforated and baited with
something such as blood or honey that
attracts fleas along with trapping them.

6.  When people began to study insects and their life cycle,
they came up with more clever ways of getting rid of pests.
Today, pest control generally comes in the forms of natural,
biological, cultural and breeding control.
 Cultural control is the simple act of rearranging the habitat
of the pest to make it unfriendly for them to stay, such as
crop rotation or mixing crops together. Farmers often used
alfalfa mixed with cotton to control certain types of insects
for example.

7.  A fairly new chemical that attract and trap insects are
sex pheromones that gets rid of pests, but keeps the
environment safe from contamination. Many of these
devices are simply fastened to a fence, wire or post.
The pheromones attract sexually active adult insects,
generally males to reduce reproduction. Slow release
pheromones makes sexually active adult male insects
exhausted because everything smells like a female and
they wear themselves out because of their attraction to
inanimate objects. All in all, safe and effective systems
for pest control. It protects the humans and the
environment.