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Use in population control
Many insects which have been considered as pests, such as leafhoppers and cockroaches, have been found to possess a respective Strepsipteran endoparasite. Inoculation of a pest population with the corresponding parasitoid has been found to aid in minimizing the impact of these pests. This method is useful in agriculture as a means of avoiding addition of chemicals to crops for pest control.

Research for biofuel production
Insects which consume lignocellulose, found in wood, are currently a topic of research in the production of biofuel. Silverfish are one type of insect in this category, along with ones such as termites, wood-feeding roaches, wood wasps, and others. The guts of these insects act as natural bioreactors which perform chemical processes which have been cost-prohibitive in making biofuel production a more large-scale application. By understanding the processes used in these natural cellulolytic systems, improvements may be made in the processing of cellulose at an industrial level.

Species richness of vascular plants has also been positively correlated with the species richness of dragonflies in a given habitat. This means that in a location such as a lake, if one finds a wide variety of odonates, then a similarly wide variety of plants will be present. This correlation is not common to all bioindicators, as some may act as indicators for a different environmental factor, such as the pool frog acting as a bioindicator of water quality due to its high quantity of time spent in and around water.