Although rove beetles' appetites for other insects would seem to make them obvious candidates for biological control of pests, and empirically they are believed to be important controls in the wild, experiments using them have not been notably successful.
Aínda que o apetito dos estafilínidos por outros insectos parecería facelos candidatos obvios a ser axentes para o control biolóxico de pragas, e empiricamente crese que son controis importantes na natureza silvestre, o feito é que os experimentos realizados usándoos non foron moi exitosos.