Paul Maloney, M.Sc. Entomologist

Limiting Factors
On March 21, 2002 a new draft of the Federal Pest Control Products Act (Bill C-53, the Federal Pest Control Products Act) was presented. If this new Act were truly written up to advance "BIOSPHERE COMPATATABLE PRODUCTS", then, we would have entered a new era for better living not seen in fifty years. This act is a LIMITING FACTOR to the advancement of a healthy environment. Changes in laws that actually prevent advancements in BIOSPHERE COMPATATABLE PESTICIDES is key to the displacement of the conventional synthetic pesticides. However, products are not the primary means for producing ecological solutions to pest problems. Ecological methods have a lot more to do with SYSTEMS THINKING and the application of LIMITING FACTORS in a positively healthy way.

A SYSTEM THINKING (or Cycle Thinking) approach is looking at all the factors that favor the presence of a particular pest problem. For example, you won't have sow bugs and cellar spiders in a dry basement. If you do have sow bugs in a dry area, then they are dead and have entered from a wet area. I've never seen carpenter ants nesting in a non-wood structure. Notice how neighborhoods without trees have no squirrels. The point is that if you don't have the right conditions, you cannot have the pest. No water, no fish. ECO Bug Doctors Inc. provides services to identify the systems causing the pest problem and then applying changes that result in LIMITING FACTORS to the target pest.

In conclusion, conventional pesticides are as compatible with our ecology as nuclear radiation is with biology. We hope to see the Federal Pest Control Products Act, Bill C-53, move from being clever legislation to a truly progressive ecological FACTOR.

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