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Control of a Mobile Pest: The Imported Fire Ant

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Entomologists and other pest control specialists recognize that pest mobility creates difficulties when control is left to individual property owners. Control of mobile weeds, insects or contagious diseases has characteristics of a public good with high exclusion costs and near equal availability to all people in the affected area. If abatement benefits for areas to which the pest is spreading are not considered, there will be under production of abatement. Cooperatives, county abatement districts or state and federal agencies are often set up to administer area-wide abatement efforts. Economies of scale in pesticide treatments, coordination of efforts to limit spatial spread of the pest (quarantine activities) and scale economies in technology to reduce adverse side effects of pesticides are given as justifications for public or large-scale pest control programs.

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  • Carlson, Gerald A., 1975. "Control of a Mobile Pest: The Imported Fire Ant," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 7(2), pages 35-41, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jagaec:v:7:y:1975:i:02:p:35-41_01
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