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Programmed by Nature
[…] none pose any real threat to us, our animals, or the plants we are treating.
We are often asked by people new to biological pest control if the good bugs we prescribe can become pests themselves. It stands to reason since risk perception is a notoriously weird science: many people tend to fear things they shouldn’t be terribly concerned with — shark attacks, for example, which strike roughly 1 in 3.9-million people — whereas hordes of folks seemingly ignore more serious threats like motor vehicle accidents which kill 1 in 88 people. Risk perception accounts for many people staying out of the water at the beach, but it doesn’t seem to stem the tide of those hitting the highway.
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