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2. List of pest-repelling plants - Wikipedia

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   They have been used in companion planting as pest control in agricultural and garden situations, and in households. Certain plants have shown effectiveness as topical repellents for haematophagous insects, such as the use of lemon eucalyptus in PMD, but incomplete research and misunderstood applications can produce variable results. [1]

3. EPN (insecticide) - Wikipedia

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   EPN is an insecticide of the phosphonothioate class. It is used against pests such as European corn borer , rice stem borer , bollworm , tobacco budworm , and boll weevil . [ 4 ]

4. List of insecticides - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of insecticides. These are chemical compounds which have been registered as insecticides. Biological insecticides are not included.

5. Etofenprox - Wikipedia

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   Etofenprox is a broad-spectrum insecticide which disturbs insect nervous systems following direct contact or ingestion, and which is active against a broad spectrum of pests. It is used in agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, forestry, animal health and public health against many insect pests, for instance Lepidoptera , Hemiptera ...

6. Push–pull agricultural pest management - Wikipedia

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   It is based on in-depth understanding of chemical ecology, agrobiodiversity, plant-plant and insect-plant interactions, and involves intercropping a cereal crop with a repellent intercrop such as Desmodium uncinatum (silverleaf) [4] (push), with an attractive trap plant such as Napier grass (pull) planted as a border crop around this intercrop ...

7. Bacillus thuringiensis - Wikipedia

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   This has led to their use as insecticides, and more recently to genetically modified crops using Bt genes, such as Bt corn. [4] Many crystal-producing Bt strains, though, do not have insecticidal properties. [5] The subspecies israelensis is commonly used for control of mosquitoes [6] and of fungus gnats. [7]