A farmer is tired of watching crops die in the field from several pest species. She decides that next year she is going to use every type of ecological pest control she can find to address the problem

Over the winter she gets ready, ordering pheromones that interfere with the reproduction of the pests, sterile male flies that will try to reproduce with some of the pest flies, and wasps that lay their eggs in the larvae of another pest. It is expensive, but she thinks this should work well. Which of the following forms of control is she not using? A) Natural enemies control
B) Cultural control
C) Genetic control
D) Natural chemical control


B

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