what techniqes do you use to smite the pesky plant pests

Question: what techniqes do you use to smite the pesky plant pests
- Keywords:
  kill,
  pest,
  plant
Asked by grbabcock to Eoin on 18 Mar 2011.
- Eoin Lettice answered on 18 Mar 2011:
  
  The pest lives in the soil and hatches out and attacks the plants when it senses that potato plants are in the soil. My approach is using bacteria and fungi that trick the pest (the potato cyst nematide) into hatching even when the potato is around. So, the nematode hatches and it starves because there is no food.
  We’re making some good progress with this approach and it’s a really interesting thing to study!
  Eoin

Question: what techniqes do you use to smite the pesky plant pests