insecticide

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• By the 1980s, China was extensively testing and implementing insecticide nets around the country as a prevention method, well before they were standard practice.

• In plants, it functions as an insecticide — poisoning insects that try to eat the plant.

• Tick activity is expected to be higher than usual this year, and some health experts recommend wearing clothing that’s been treated with permethrin, an insecticide.

• In fact, another study found that sparrows eating seeds coated with a neonicotinoid insecticide commonly used in agriculture lost weight and then delayed their migration.

• First, researchers need to test the new version of the insecticide against pesticide-resistant mosquitoes.

• The disease remains a global scourge despite rapid advances in providing insecticide nets and spraying homes, mostly with DDT.

• Thanks to the widespread adoption of such seeds, farmers have been spraying their crops with insecticide less frequently.

• Sometimes a druggist will remember selling some poison to kill a dog or as an insecticide.

• There are very few data at hand concerning the discovery of the insecticide properties of pyrethrum.

• Perches are best cleaned by washing with some liquid insecticide, and then allowing them to dry in the sun.

• The experiments prove that all insects having open mouth parts are peculiarly susceptible to this popular .