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2. Pesticide toxicity to bees - Wikipedia

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   Propoxur is highly toxic to honey bees. The LD50 for bees is greater than one ug/honey bee. [citation needed] Highly toxic Acephate [25] Orthene Organophosphate: 3 days Acephate is a broad-spectrum insecticide and is highly toxic to bees and other beneficial insects. [26] Moderately toxic Azinphos-methyl [27] Guthion, Methyl-Guthion ...

3. Insecticide - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Black Flag (insecticide) - Wikipedia

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   Black Flag also makes a series of pesticide-free insect traps, under the "Motel" brand, including its Roach Motel, Fly Motel, and Yellow Jacket Motel. The common slogan for all of these is that the insects thus trapped "check in, but they don't check out." The traps are disposable and are meant to be discarded once full.

5. Neonicotinoid - Wikipedia

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   A 2014 review took a broader look at the ecological impact of neonicotinoids and fipronil, finding negative effects on invertebrates, but not microbes or fish. [125] Although not yet conclusive, there is increasing evidence that neonicotinoids can have negative effects on pollinating insects other than bees, including monarch butterflies. Some ...

6. Pyrethrin - Wikipedia

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   Synergists make pyrethrin more effective, allowing lower doses to be effective. Pyrethrins are effective insecticides because they selectively target insects rather than mammals due to higher insect nerve sensitivity, smaller insect body size, lower mammalian skin absorption, and more efficient mammalian hepatic metabolism. [21]

7. Bed bugs' thicker skins resulting in greater resistance to ...

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   A team of researchers believes it has figured out how the pests continue to stay one step ahead of those who want them gone. Bed bugs' thicker skins resulting in greater resistance to insecticides ...