Atoms of elements in the same group have the same number of . This is why they have similar chemical properties.

Growing crops in places where major pests don't live using beneficial insects to eat harmful insects using a rat trap instead of a rodenticide developing drought-resistant tomato plants using beneficial insects or natural oils to repel pests planting a different crop every year to fake out the pests keeping food covered to deter ants and rodents developing bean plants with a resistance to fungus picking caterpillars off tomato plants cultivation practice biological control cultural control genetic resistance natural chemicals