ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF PESTS CONTOL



 ADVANTAGES 

There are several advantages of pest control in public health and safety, these advantages underscores the important of pest control to both human health and the environment.  This includes:

1.Prevent Diseases

> Most of the pest that keeps roaming about in our house carries diseases that can be easily transmittable to humans and animals.

>Common house pests such as fleas, cockroaches and mosquitoes can transmit deadly diseases to humans including malaria, plague, dengue and surprisingly Asthma. 

2. Promotes better sleep

>Most of these deaths are because of malaria.

>The better you sleep the more your health gets better, but one can not do that when having creepy pests around especially bed bugs.

3. Reduce allergies and itching

>Common households pests including rodents, cockroaches and dust mites can all exacerbate allergy and asthma symptoms, especially in children.

>Many pests bites causes severe allergies and itching all over the body.


DISADVANTAGES

Majority of the disadvantages associated with pest control are related to the use of pesticides and related products to control pest. These includes:

1. POISONING

>Farmers must take care not to overuse chemical pesticides as they have serious effects on non-target organisms including human

2. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

>Pesticides can contaminate soil, water, turf, and other vegetation. 

>In addition to killing insect or weeds, pesticides can be toxic to a host of other organisms including birds, fish, beneficial insects and non-target plants.

3. BIOACCUMULATION

>Bioaccumulation occurs when an organism absorbs a substance at a rate faster than that of which the substances is lost or eliminated by catabolism and excretion.





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