Vermin one calls generally the parasits of the useful plants and such reptiles, which appear to humans as annoying.

Examples of it are sheet lice, Kellerasseln, spiders, naked snails, bark beetles, moths and Silberfischchen.

They appear to humans as disturbing, because they often arise in large number, the crust of trees zernagen or grain and sheets corrode.

Fight

Already for a long time humans of plants planted under their useful plants, which hold parasits. For some decades the farmers use above all chemical poisons (Pestizide and fungicides), which are to kill vermin.

Unwanted side effects

Pestizide and fungicides damage not only vermin, but over the respiration and the food chain also humans. Some chemical substances stand in the suspicion to be krebserregend. Therefore one tries to limit the use of these materials.

Other beginnings of the go by to dam vermin for example by frequent crop rotation.

Word origin

Similarly as herb and weeds the term vermin developed as counterpart to the Geziefer. Thereby animals were meant which are suited for a victim.

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