Article: Farmers Find Organic Arsenal to Wage War on Pests

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/science/30farm.html?pagewanted=2&ref=science
According to this article, conventional farming is in fact making the pest problem worse. Many different insects, as we already know, eat harmful insects. The key is to identify how to draw them in. Organic farmers plant sunflowers that draw in Lady Beetles as well as other 'good bugs' that eat harmful ones.Instead of using herbicides and insecticides, much research has been going on in order to attract good insects.