Citation:

Chapter 10 Cultural control. Pages 208-242. In: Insect-Pest Management and Control. Principles of Plant and Animal Pest Control. Washington DC, National Academy of Sciences (United States). Volume 3. Publication 1695, Third Printing, 508 pages.

Keywords: Sanitation, plant and crop refuse utilization or destruction, agricultural crops, trees, clean field borders, disposal of wastes, improved storage and processing, tillage, crop rotation, animal

rotation, land, livestock and tree management, strip-cropping, fertilizers, nitrogen, planting time, insect-free seed and seeding materials, destruction of volunteer plants, destruction of alternate hosts, replacement of favored or alternate hosts, distance from other plantings, destruction of early blooms, crop spacing, time of calving, dehorning and castration, state of harvesting, time of harvesting, strip harvesting, time of shearing, trap crops and logs, regulation of plant stands, selection of site, thinning and topping, water management, irrigation, crop infestations, mosquitoes and other aquatic pests, impoundments, advantages and disadvantages of cultural control