Pesticides have become a major force behind pest control and have developed rapidly. During the nineteen seventies and eighties, public concern about the health and environmental hazards associated with pesticides increased dramatically. Insecticide use is a growing problem throughout the world.
Insecticides are harmful to the environment, ecosystems, and even humans.
They are the cause of pollution and are not target specific, which means that they also harm beneficial insects. Using integrated pheromone trap pest control management and insecticides to control insect pests is better for the environment and ecosystems than using pesticides alone because it targets specific pests while insecticides kill a variety of insects. Besides killing a variety of insects, pesticides are harmful in a number of other ways. Pesticide losses into the ground water, surface water, atmosphere, and soils have a broad spectrum of damaging effects on wildlife, plant life, soil, water organisms, and humans. In fact, the World Health Organization estimates that as many as 25 million people suffer health damages from pesticides each year and approximately 220,000 die from pesticide poisoning annually.