Definitions

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	'''Repellant''' - Prevents damage to structures by being unattractive to foraging insects. see Deterrent.		'''Repellant''' - Prevents damage to structures by being unattractive to foraging insects. see Deterrent.
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Allogrooming - A form of mutual grooming in social insects and animals. Observed in ants, termites and other social insects, used to promote good hygiene in a nest.

Bait Station - Small structure with openings allowing entrance of the insects, and containing an attractive bait and insecticide

Biopesticide - Microorganisms used in pest control. Development is underway for effective broad-range pathogen.

Conidia - Asexual, non-motile spores of a fungus. Also called mitospores

Deterrent - Substance that is avoided by foraging insects. Can be sprayed on to structures and acts to prevent structure damage by detering insects from using the material for food. ex. Timber

Entomopathogens - A pathogen capable of invading an insect and killing it. ex. Fungi

Epizootics- A type of disease that appears in an animal population as a newly recorded case. It may also spread much faster than what was previously expected.

Exoskeleton - Found in insects and crustaceans. Hardened outer latyer of cuticle composed of chitin.

Hemimetabolous - Incomplete metamorphosis in insects consisting of an egg stage, a variable number of nymph stages characterized by a slight increase in body size and specialized development, and finally an adult stage.

Mycelium - Vegetative part of the fungus, consisting of branched hyphae

Repellant - Prevents damage to structures by being unattractive to foraging insects. see Deterrent.