ENVS 1126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Genetically Modified Maize, Plasmodium Falciparum, Glyphosate
14 Nov 2016
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Natural chemical control: pests are unwanted organisms (plants, animals, microbes) Characteristics: loss of resources, damage to lawns and gardens, agents of disease, annoyance, discomfort. Examples: weeds that compete for space, freshwater mussels that clog intake pipes, rabbits that decimate field crops, moles that burrow through lawns, moths that eat through clothes, cockroaches, flies, bacteria, viruses, etc, pests can outwit us. Use less expensive pesticides like ddt have negative side effects. Destruction of forests -> removal of natural predators. Bedbugs: hide in mattresses and come out at night to feed on warm- blooded animals. Kissing bug: vector for trypanosomiasis (chagas disease), which is caused by. Flies can travel for miles, feeding on human wastes and transporting diseases. Flies, ticks, mites, lice, roaches, rats, mice: mosquitoes. Malaria is a disease caused by the protist, plasmodium falciparum. P. falciparum does not inject itself directly into its host.
