PEST CONTROL METHODS USED BY RIVERINE FROM RIO VERMELHO COMMUNITY, SOUTH OF MATO GROSSO STATE, BRAZIL

Resumo

Riverine communities have vast popular knowledge about plants and animals, and concomitantly, the pests that threaten their farming, mainly insects. Ethnoentomology, subarea of Ethnobiology, is responsible for studying the relationship between humans and ethnocategory "insects", which includes the characterization of the insects by popular culture. The present study approached the interactions and knowledge of riverine from Rio Vermelho Community about insects and their main pest control methods, and the implications of this practice to ecologically important area in which they are inserted, nearby Rio Vermelho river and Jurigue stream, in south of Mato Grosso state. We used semi-structured interviews to collect data, registered in audio files or noted, according to preference of interviewee. The riverine have considerable knowledge of main pest and the use of insecticide and herbicide is the most widely method used to control undesirable species.