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随着全球人口的增长及有限资源的减少,农民需要新的、更可持续的病虫害防治方法。当今生态学家已经发现了一个安全可持续,并且有成本效益的新的有害生物防治方法。但它却不是高技术化合物或是遗传技术,而是一个极小的低技术有机物——蚂蚁。来自70多个科学研究的综述提供的证据表明,蚂蚁可以比化学农药更经济有效地控制从可可和柑桔到棕榈油和雪松的害虫。该文章涵盖了对非洲东南亚和澳大利亚8个国家9种作物的50多种害虫的研究。
As the world's population grows and the limited resources available, farmers need new and more sustainable pest and disease control methods. Today's ecologists have found a safe, sustainable and cost-effective way to control pests. But it is not high-tech compounds or genetic technology, but a very small low-tech organic - ants. A review from more than 70 scientific studies provides evidence that ants can control pests from cocoa and oranges to palm oil and cedar more cost-effectively than chemical pesticides. The article covers more than 50 pests of nine crops in eight countries in South-East Asia and Australia.