Since the middle of the last century, crop protection has comprehensively relied on synthetic
pesticides to rapidly cope with agricultural pest challenges. Overwhelming dependency on
pesticides stimulated resistance in crop pests and challenged health and the environment.
These problems invigorated interest to their alternative like biopesticides. These are
pesticidal products, naturally occurring or derived from natural resources. Biopesticides are
recognized in three categories by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) including …

With a changing climate and cultivation of vast agricultural monocultures, the abundance of
various pests shows an increase, and their activity is shifting, expanding, and intensifying.
To avoid losses on crops, a variety of synthetic pesticides is increasingly being used to
control harmful pests. This trend leads to the overuse of pesticides, which has environmental
consequences, because these toxic chemicals enter the soil and water, can exhibit toxic
effects on non-target organisms, and could eventually enter the food chain resulting in …