Biological pesticides are used all over the world, including in regions such as Germany, Mexico, and Japan. Biological pesticides are known by different names throughout the world, but they are all grouped under the common term food safety. Biological pesticide, a simple contraction of the word 'biologic pesticides' to mean organic pesticides includes several categories of pest control intervention: through chemical, mechanical, or predatory relationships. The word is also associated with the study of insect life cycles, and by extension, the manipulation of organic life forms. This manipulation is done by way of introducing chemicals into the environment. These chemicals are absorbed into the plant material and reproduced leading to the generation of an antidote in the form of a pesticide that kills the pests and/or prevents their reproduction.
Biological pesticides are grouped into two broad categories according to how they act on the pests they intend to destroy: biological pesticides with insecticide as the primary active ingredient and biologic pesticides with pyrethrin as the main ingredient. Pyrethrin is a natural compound derived from the chrysanthemum family, used for hundreds of years as a caustic and poisonous gas that kills insects. Since the mass production of Pyrethrin in recent years, it is now widely used as an insecticide. A biological pesticide with Pyrethrin as its primary active ingredient is often more highly regarded than conventional pesticides, as they are more effective, are cheaper to produce, and have few ecological effects. In regions such as Germany, the high prevalence of farmlands has increased the requirements for biological pesticides. For instance, according to Deutsche Welle, Germany has a farmland cover of around 348,672 sq km.
There are several biological pesticides on the market that contain the active ingredient Pyrethrin. Biological pesticides with Pyrethrin have been proven to be efficient against a wide range of plant pathogens and fungi, including a wide range of plant viruses such as the tobacco mosaic virus and Botrytis. These biological pesticides also kill mosquitoes and other insects such as cockroaches and termites that can cause great harm to humans and animals. Pyrethrin also reduces the growth and development of fungi on plants, preventing the fungi from multiplying. This makes it particularly effective at controlling fungi that infect fruits and vegetables.
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