enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Methoprene - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoprene

   This breaks the biological life cycle of the insect, preventing recurring infestation. Methoprene is considered a biological pesticide because rather than controlling target pests through direct toxicity, methoprene interferes with an insect’s lifecycle and prevents it from reaching maturity or reproducing.

3. Attractive toxic sugar baits - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_toxic_sugar_baits

   This use of traps attractive to mosquitoes prevents the need for indiscriminate insecticide spraying. [1] [2] Attractive toxic sugar bait sprayed on vegetation has been successful in controlling Anopheles mosquitoes in outdoor environments. Additionally, indoor ATSB shows promise as a supplement to mosquito nets for controlling mosquitoes. [3]

4. Biopesticide - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopesticide

   A biopesticide is a biological substance or organism that damages, kills, or repels organisms seens as pests. Biological pest management intervention involves predatory, parasitic, or chemical relationships. They are obtained from organisms including plants, bacteria and other microbes, fungi, nematodes, etc.

5. Insecticide - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insecticide

   Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects. [1] They include ovicides and larvicides used against insect eggs and larvae , respectively. The major use of insecticides is in agriculture , but they are also used in home and garden settings, industrial buildings, for vector control , and control of insect parasites of animals and humans.

6. Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis...

   Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki (Btk) is a group of bacteria used as biological control agents against lepidopterans (moths and butterflies). Btk, along with other B. thuringiensis products, is one of the most widely used biological pesticides due to its high specificity; it is effective against lepidopterans, and it has little to no effect on nontarget species.

7. Oxamyl - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxamyl

   Oxamyl is a carbamate pesticide. According to the WHO Food and Agriculture Organization, "Oxamyl is a colourless crystalline solid with a melting point of 100-102 °C changing to a dimorphic form with a melting point of 108-110 °C.

8. Benzoylurea insecticide - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzoylurea_insecticide

   BPUs accounted for 3% of the $ 18.4 billion world insecticide market in 2018. [3] Lufenuron, was the largest selling BPU in 2016, selling for $ 112 million. [4] BPUs are active against many types of insect pests, (e.g. lepidoptera coleoptera, diptera) in agriculture, [1] [5] as well as being used against termites and animal health pests such as ...

9. Biocide - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocide

   The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses a slightly different definition for biocides as "a diverse group of poisonous substances including preservatives, insecticides, disinfectants, and pesticides used for the control of organisms that are harmful to human or animal health or that cause damage to natural or manufactured products ...