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2. Insect repellent - Wikipedia

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   Insect repellents help prevent and control the outbreak of insect-borne (and other arthropod-bourne) diseases such as malaria, Lyme disease, dengue fever, bubonic plague, river blindness, and West Nile fever. Pest animals commonly serving as vectors for disease include insects such as flea, fly, and mosquito; and ticks (arachnids). [citation ...

3. Pyriproxyfen - Wikipedia

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   It is also used as a prevention for flea control on household pets, for killing indoor and outdoor ants and roaches. [5] Methods of application include aerosols, bait, carpet powders, foggers, shampoos and pet collars. [6] Pyriproxyfen is a juvenile hormone analog (IRAC group 7C) and an insect growth regulator. [7]

4. 15 Ways to Repel Bugs Naturally (and Cheaply) - AOL

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   The project requires safe-to-melt wax, crayons, containers for melting the wax, wicks, citronella oil, a spoon, a thermometer, jars, and hot glue (to affix the wicks to the bottom of the jars).

5. Roach bait - Wikipedia

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   The insecticide-laden feces, fluids and eventual carcass, can contain sufficient residual pesticide to kill others in the same nesting site. As the roach staggers around for hours or even days, it infects other roaches in the nest, with toxicant transfer through feces, [1] which then go on to infect others. This secondary transmission occurs ...

6. Fipronil - Wikipedia

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   Fipronil is used as the active ingredient in flea control products for pets and home roach baits as well as field pest control for corn, golf courses, and commercial turf. Its widespread use makes its specific effects the subject of considerable attention.

7. Dinotefuran - Wikipedia

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   Dinotefuran is an insecticide of the neonicotinoid class developed by Mitsui Chemicals for control of insect pests such as aphids, whiteflies, thrips, leafhoppers, leafminers, sawflies, mole cricket, white grubs, lacebugs, billbugs, beetles, mealybugs, and cockroaches on leafy vegetables, in residential and commercial buildings, and for professional turf management. [2]