Biological control means the control of organisms harmful to plants or plant products using natural means of biological origin or substances identical to them, such as micro-organisms, semiochemicals, extracts from plant products as defined in Article 3(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, or invertebrate macro-organisms.
Biological control means the use by humans of living organisms to control or suppress undesirable animals and plants; the action of parasites, predators, or pathogens on a host or prey population to produce a lower general equilib- rium than would prevail in the absence of these agents.
Biological control means the use by humans of living
More Definitions of Biological control
Biological control means organisms that can be introduced to sites, such as herbivores, predators, parasites, and hyperparasites.
Biological control means the use of specimens of one species for the purpose of preying on, parasitising on, damaging, killing, suppressing or controlling a specimen of another species;
Biological control means the introduction, conservation or encouragement of natural predators, pathogens or parasites for the purpose of preventing, reducing or eliminating mosquito populations.
Biological control means the use of natural agents such as insects, nematodes, fungi, viruses, fish or animals to control weeds.
Biological control means the use of natural enemies of category 1, 2 and 3 plants to control such plants;
Biological control means the control of organisms harmful to plants or plant products using natural means of biological origin or substances identical to them, such as micro-organisms, semiochemicals, extracts from plant products as defined in Article 3(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, or invertebrate macro-organisms. (23) ‘biological control’ means the control of organisms harmful to plants or plant products using natural means of biological origin or substances identical to them, such as micro-organisms, semiochemicals, as defined in recital 7 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/1432, extracts from plant products within the meaning of Article 3(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, and other natural substances or invertebrate macro-organisms.
Biological control means the control of organisms harmful to plants or plant products using natural means of biological origin or substances identical to them, such as micro-organisms, semiochemicals, extracts from plant products as defined in Article 3(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, invertebrate macro-organisms and other natural substances that may contain components that originate from nature, such as algae, bacteria, viruses, viroids, micoplasmas, fungi, proteins, peptides, enzymes, RNA, and protozoans;