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    Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects. They include ovicides and larvicides used against insect eggs and larvae, respectively. The major use...
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  • This is a list of insecticides. These are chemical compounds which have been registered as insecticides. The names on the list are the ISO common name...
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  • Insecticide is a chemical used to control insects Look up insecticide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Insecticide may refer to: Insecticide (video...
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  • Hindustan Insecticides Limited (HIL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government...
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    Imidacloprid is a systemic insecticide belonging to a class of chemicals called the neonicotinoids which act on the central nervous system of insects...
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    insect. BAHs thus belong to the class of insect growth regulators. The insecticidal activity of RH-5849 was discovered serendipitously in 1984 at Rohm and...
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  • Raid is the brand name of a line of insecticide products produced by S. C. Johnson & Son, first launched in 1956. The initial active ingredient was allethrin...
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    substances that are used to control pests. They include herbicides, insecticides, nematicides, fungicides, and many others (see table). The most common...
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    effectiveness of a mosquito net greatly by treating it with an appropriate insecticide or insect repellent. Research has shown mosquito nets to be an extremely...
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    Ant chalk (redirect from Insecticide chalk)
    Ant chalk, also known as Chinese chalk or Miraculous Insecticide Chalk, is an insecticide in the form of normal looking chalk. It contains the pesticides...
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    the isocyanates: RN=C=O + R′OH → RNHC(O)OR′ The so-called carbamate insecticides feature the carbamate ester functional group. Included in this group...
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    Phenylpyrazole insecticides are a class of chemically-related broad-spectrum insecticides. The chemical structures of these insecticides are characterized...
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  • The Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) was formed in 1984 and works as a specialist technical group of the industry association CropLife to...
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  • Insecticidal soap is used to control many plant insect pests. Soap has been used for more than 200 years as an insect control. Because insecticidal soap...
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    Fipronil is a broad-spectrum insecticide that belongs to the phenylpyrazole insecticide class. Fipronil disrupts the insect central nervous system by blocking...
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    pesticide use in the 20th century. The Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) definition of insecticide resistance is 'a heritable change in the...
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  • crop. RNA interference is under study for use in spray-on insecticides (RNAi insecticides) by companies including Syngenta and Bayer. Such sprays do...
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    Diamide insecticides are a class of insecticides, active mainly against lepidoptera (caterpillars), which act on the insect ryanodine receptor. They are...
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    insect repellents or with mosquito-control measures such as spraying insecticides and draining standing water. Several medications are available to prevent...
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    pyrethroid, a class of synthetic insecticides that mimic the structure and properties of the naturally occurring insecticide pyrethrin which is present in...
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  • Insecticidal is a 2005 Canadian comedy horror film directed by Jeffery Scott Lando. In the film, a college student performs experiments on insects until...
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  • (sometimes shortened to neonics /ˈniːoʊnɪks/) are a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically similar to nicotine, developed by scientists at Shell and...
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    and an insecticide. As a medication, it is used to treat scabies and lice. It is applied to the skin as a cream or lotion. As an insecticide, it can...
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    crystalline chemical compound, an organochloride. Originally developed as an insecticide, it became infamous for its environmental impacts. DDT was first synthesized...
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    are chemical derivatives of N-benzoyl-N′-phenylurea, which are used as insecticides. They do not directly kill the insect, but disrupt moulting and egg hatch...
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    including key biomolecules such as DNA, RNA and ATP, as well as many insecticides, herbicides, nerve agents and flame retardants. OPEs have been widely...
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    and C. coccineum). Pyrethroids are used as commercial and household insecticides. In household concentrations pyrethroids are generally harmless to humans...
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    The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is a United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation...
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  • Insecticide is a 2008 action-adventure game by Crackpot Entertainment and published by Gamecock Media Group for the Nintendo DS and Microsoft Windows...
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    practical way in which pesticides (including herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, or nematode control agents) are delivered to their biological targets...
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