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  2. List of pest-repelling plants - Wikipedia

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    Pitcher plants: traps and ingests insects Radish: repels cabbage maggot and cucumber beetles [3] Rosemary: repels cabbage looper, carrot fly, cockroaches and mosquitoes, [11] slugs, snails, as well as the Mexican bean beetle [3] Russian sage: repels wasps Rue: repels cucumber and flea beetles Sarracenia pitcher plants

  3. Horticultural oil - Wikipedia

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    Mineral oil is the most used insecticide, both in acrage and in volume. 34,508,857 pounds (15,652,972 kg) of mineral oil was sprayed on 4,543,066 acres (about 1.8 million hectares). 1 to 4% solutions in water are sprayed, which is hundreds of times more than modern synthetic insecticides. Mineral oil is correspondingly cheaper.

  4. Pesticides in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) was first passed in 1947, giving the United States Department of Agriculture responsibility for regulating pesticides. [11] In 1972, FIFRA underwent a major revision and transferred responsibility of pesticide regulation to the Environmental Protection Agency and shifted emphasis ...

  5. The dirty secret of California's legal weed - AOL

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    Poisons show up in California's 'safe' weed products. The Times and WeedWeek testing also found another off-list chemical, propargite, a carcinogenic insecticide that UCLA researchers have linked ...

  6. Biological pest control - Wikipedia

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    The first report of the use of an insect species to control an insect pest comes from "Nanfang Caomu Zhuang" (南方草木狀 Plants of the Southern Regions) (c. 304 AD), attributed to Western Jin dynasty botanist Ji Han (嵇含, 263–307), in which it is mentioned that "Jiaozhi people sell ants and their nests attached to twigs looking like ...

  7. Guano - Wikipedia

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    Bat guano is partially decomposed bat excrement and has an organic matter content greater than 40%; it is a source of nitrogen, and may contain up to 6% available phosphate (P 2 O 5). [2] [3] Raw insectivorous bat guano. The feces of insectivorous bats consists of fine particles of insect exoskeleton, which are largely composed of chitin.

  8. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act - Wikipedia

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    Mexican Brand Insect Fluid, "Under the Insecticide Act of 1910" The Federal Insecticide Act (FIA) of 1910 was the first pesticide legislation enacted. [2] This legislation ensured quality pesticides by protecting farmers and consumers from fraudulent and/or adulterated products by manufacturers and distributors.

  9. Integrated pest management - Wikipedia

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    Mekong Delta farmers cut insecticide spraying from five times per crop cycle to zero to one. [citation needed] The Plant Protection Center and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have been encouraging farmers to grow flowers, okra, and beans on rice paddy banks, instead of stripping vegetation, as was typical. The plants attract ...

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