What can cause hunger?
25. Up to 90% of all food grown is lost to insect attack, therefore, insects can cause hunger. 26. Ecological devastation resulting from desertification can cause hunger. 27. Systems that produce powerless and landless people reduce hunger. 28. Man’s ignorance, greed, misuse of technology and selfishness can cause hunger. Pests are…? 29. A troublesome or destructive person, animal, plant or thing. 30. Always defined from an insect’s perspective. 31. …sometimes defined using an economic injury level. 32. …sometimes tolerable with education and understanding. 33. …the target of over 200,000 tons of pesticides annually in the U.S., and these chemicals are used by people, including you! Arthropod borne diseases could affect any of us in Michigan or any other place in the U.S. Which of the following is true about arthorpods as vectors of disease? 34. Black flies transmit Lyme’s disease. 35. Encephalitis is caused by a worm transmitted by ticks and both are found here in Michigan. 36
