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2. Pesticide application - Wikipedia

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   A manual backpack-type sprayer Space treatment against mosquitoes using a thermal fogger Grubbs Vocational College students spraying Irish potatoes. Pesticide application is the practical way in which pesticides (including herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, or nematode control agents) are delivered to their biological targets (e.g. pest organism, crop or other plant).

3. Baygon - Wikipedia

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   It is an insecticide used for extermination and control of household pests such as crickets, roaches, ants, carpenter ants, spiders, silverfish and mosquitoes. In 1975, Baygon introduced Australia’s first surface spray for killing cockroaches, ticks and other crawling insects. Baygon was introduced by the German chemical manufacturer Bayer in ...

4. Projectile use by non-human organisms - Wikipedia

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   Most projectiles used by terrestrial animals are liquids. Among invertebrates there are a number of examples. Velvet worms can squirt out a slimy adhesive fluid from glands on the sides of their head, and use it to trap their prey. The spitting spiders Scytodes can spit a venomous sticky fluid that traps its victims and also poisons them. [1]

5. Prallethrin - Wikipedia

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   It is marketed as a mosquito repellent by Godrej as "GoodKnight Silver Power", SC Johnson as "All Out" and Southern Labs as "Quit Mozz" in India. It is also the primary insecticide in certain products for killing wasps and hornets, including their nests. It is the main ingredient in the consumer product "Hot Shot Ant & Roach Plus Germ Killer ...

6. Propoxur - Wikipedia

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   Propoxur (Baygon) is a carbamate non-systemic insecticide, produced from catechol, [2] and was introduced in 1959. It has a fast knockdown and long residual effect, and is used against turf, forestry, and household pests and fleas. It is also used in pest control for domestic animals, Anopheles mosquitoes, ants, gypsy moths, and other ...

7. List of insecticides - Wikipedia

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   The industry-sponsored Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) advises on the use of insecticides in crop protection and classifies the available compounds according to their chemical classes and mechanism of action so as to manage the risks of pesticide resistance developing. [4]