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Action threshold the pest level at which some type of pest management action must be taken Bioaccumulation The accumulation of toxic substances, such as pesticides, or other organic chemicals in an organism Biomagnification The tendency for certain pesticides to progressively become more concentrated in each type of organism when moving from the bottom to the top organism within a food chain Contact pesticide Pesticide that is not absorbed systemically by treated plants or animals. These pesticides must directly touch the pest or a site the pest frequents to be effective Economic threshold The level where the economic losses caused by pest damage, if the pest population continued to grow, would be greater than the cost of controlling the pests
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