Which pest management method involves redesigning a structure to make manure removal easier?

• A. Cultivation
• B. Habitat modification
• C. Exclusion
• D. Sanitation

Answer: (B)

The key idea is changing the environment to reduce pest-friendly areas and make control tasks easier. Redesigning a building to simplify manure removal is habitat modification—you’re altering the space itself to disrupt pest harborage and improve management efficiency. By reorganizing floors, drains, and removal pathways, you reduce damp, cluttered spots that pests use for breeding and make routine cleanup more effective.

Cultivation involves changing crops or soil to suppress pests, not building design. Exclusion focuses on barriers to keep pests out, not on how waste is removed. Sanitation covers cleaning up attractants and waste, but the specific act described is about altering the structure to facilitate removal, which is habitat modification.