Which statement about the application of insecticides is true?
A) To control agricultural pests, pest management uses biological controls, chemicals, or cultural methods, but never a combination of these.
B) Simply killing many individuals is often the best way to reduce the size of a pest population.
C) Most insecticides kill the pest but not the pest's natural predators.
D) Pest species can rebound faster than their predators because the pests often have a higher reproductive rate than predators have.
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