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biological control

n. control of pests using natural predators, parasites, pathogens, or other organism(s) that harm the pest species

Usage examples of "biological control".

And their use in biological control has been a tremendous boon to agriculture.

We had decided to be an organic farm, no chemical pesticides, so it was a matter of either biological control or hand-to-hand combat.

Here was a cruel biological control on this society, and an absolute one.

His topic was biological control of radioactive and toxic wastes, and he was showing microscope pictures of tiny organisms that, he said, would concentrate all the undesirables into their own bodies, simply by feeding on them, and then the little things could be harvested and disposed of.

The Carmichaels had read that mantises are biological control agents.

When the Kalendru knew that we had the secret of biological control, they ceded that primacy to us without qualification.