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Insects can be pests of agricultural crops or of forests.
Thus the approach in biorational control programs may be to lower the pest population by stressing it with a mix of biological and chemical agents. At molecular level - probe animal tissues for evidence of integration of baculovirus DNA into host chromatin. C.P. van der Beek. Doctoral Thesis 1980. 1, page 134.