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  1. Bug Eats Bug

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    98
    NoS ID
    329493
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: If the ladybird flies into the house it may arrive in a biological control kit, and its concern would be not for its children, but to satiate its craving for greenfly or aphids. In an...

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  2. Best Friends: Natural Enemies (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 16 min., 1995 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at biological pest control, using predatory insects, Describes the procedures involved in the integrated pest management (IPM) of a large commercial orange orchard in Queensland. A co-ordinated...

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  3. Pest Wars (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Chris Haws; Sean Morris
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) BBC

    Questions the efficiency of chemical pesticides, which are revealed to be expensive, environmentally unfriendly and ineffective. Reviews the development of biological pest control, looking at current...

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  4. Biological Control 2 (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Mike Gunton
    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Biological control can be one of the most effective of all methods of pest control - self-regulating, safe and very cost-effective - but it has a limited success rate. There is interest in improving the...

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  5. Biological Control3 of Insects, The (1960 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 36 min.

    Shows pests studied in the laboratory including the cottony cushion scale, the cabbage moth, the cabbage white butterfly, the green vegetable bug, and the vegetable weevil. Outlines the success with which...

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  6. Bug Eats Bug

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    96
    NoS ID
    325433
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: If the ladybird flies into the house it may arrive in a biological control kit, and its concern would be not for its children, but to satiate its craving for greenfly or aphids. In an...

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  7. Cane Toads (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 46 min.

    Tongue-in-cheek study of cane toads, originally imported into Queensland in 1935 from Hawaii to save the sugar crop from destruction by the greyback beetle. The toads bred rapidly and became an agricultural...

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  8. Fungi: Friend and Foe (1990 Video)

    Director
    Chris Warren
    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The symbiotic relation of fungi to their hosts can be harnessed as a biological means of controlling pests and encouraging growth in trees and other crops. It may also lead to new chemicals and drugs for the...

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  9. Eco: Unnatural Solutions (1985 Video)

    Director
    Paul Cleary
    Producer
    Vivica Parsons
    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    A survey of the effects on foxes, otters, bees, birds, etc. of the effects of DDT, dieldrin, aldrin, glyophosate, lindane, paraquat, 2,4,5-T, ioxynil and phosphorus compounds. The dangers of spray drift on...

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  10. Formica Aquilonia (A Study of Wood Ants in the Knapdale Forest on the West Coast of Scotland) (1980 Film)

    Producer
    Eric Lucey
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the distribution of the ‘Rufa’ group in Europe and then identifies the areas colonised by those species found in the UK. General anatomy, caste differences, nest structures and environments...

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