vector and pest management

history

• Salt, smoke and insect repellent plants can keep away organism and preserve food.

• 5,000 years ago the Summarianscontrolled insects and mite with sulphur.

• Oil sprays, ash, sulphurointment and lime were used by Greeks and Romans to protect themselves, livestock and crop pests.

• Romans burned fields and rotated crops to reduce crop diseases.

• 2,500 years ago Chinese controlled body lice and other pest with mercury and arsenic

• Plant desired insecticides and predatory ants in orchards were developed by the Chinese to control caterpillars 1,200 years ago.

• Ducks and geese were used to catch insects and control weeds.

• Malaysia used cat to control and catch rats and mice 

define of vector

• Vector shall mean any insect or arthropod, rodent, or other animal

• whichcapable causing discomfort, injury, or

• capable of harboring or transmitting thecausative agentsof disease to humans or domestic animals.

•  Examples of vector are such as, mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies, fleas and ticks are vectors of disease

 define of pest 

• Pests are living things, which can be troublesome or unwanted.

• Some pests also called “vectors” because they transmit diseases and cause public health concern.

• Examples: rodent, cockroaches, mildew, algae, plant insects. Cockroaches, house ants, termites