Biopesticides and Biorationals
Biopesticide
Certain types of pesticides derived from such natural materials as animals, plants, bacteria, and certain minerals. For example, canola oil and baking soda have pesticidal applications and are considered biopesticides." EPA.
Biopesticide
A living organism applied as an inundative biological control agent or augmentative biological control agent.
Biorational Pesticide
A chemical such as a toxin or growth regulator derived from a living organism and applied either as the entire dead organism or as an extract from the organism; alternatively, the chemical or an analog of it synthesized in vitro. Use of biorational pesticides is usually considered to be chemical control not biological control." (J. Howard Frank, Glossary of Expressions in Biological Control.)
- 100 years of Bacillus thuringiensis: a critical scientific assessment - American Academy of Microbiology
- Bt resistance management - EPA
- Bt's New Bite - AgWeb
- Biopesticide and Organic Database for Integrated Pest Management: Why use Biospesticides? - Rutgers University, IR-4 Project
- Biopesticide products list - EPA
- Biointensive Integrated Pest Management - Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
- Biorationals: Ecological Pest Management Database - ATTRA
- Butterflies and Bt corn - USDA
- Commercial biocontrol products available for use against plant pathogens on ornamental crops and turf - UGA
- Extract of Chenopodium has been formulated into an insecticide for controlling many soft bodied insect and mite pests, including thrips, whiteflies, aphids, leaf miners, leaf hoppers, and spider mites. A product, "Requiem," is available from AgraQuest, Inc.
- IR-4 Database for Biopesticide and Organic Pest Management Solution
- Microbial Insecticides - EDIS
- Natural tea saponin is extracted from tea seed. Tea seed cake or powder is a residue remaining after the oil has been extracted from the seeds of certain plants in the camellia family. A product is extracted from the de-oiled tea seed for applications in agriculture, including a ground and foliar pesticide for insects and nematodes. Additional benefits are claimed for the product. One source for this product is the Taiwan Fu Kung Industrial Co. Ltd.
- Safety aspects of genetically modified foods of plant origin - FAO