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2. The Best Bug Sprays and Insect Repellents, According to ... - AOL

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   DEET-free Lemon Eucalyptus Insect Repellent. This bug repellent uses the oil of Lemon Eucalyptus-based formula to help combat mosquitoes and other bugs for up to 6 hours.

3. Icaridin - Wikipedia

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   Icaridin, also known as picaridin, is an insect repellent which can be used directly on skin or clothing. [1] It has broad efficacy against various arthropods such as mosquitos, ticks, gnats, flies and fleas, and is almost colorless and odorless.

4. Insect repellent - Wikipedia

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   Insect repellents help prevent and control the outbreak of insect-borne (and other arthropod-bourne) diseases such as malaria, Lyme disease, dengue fever, bubonic plague, river blindness, and West Nile fever. Pest animals commonly serving as vectors for disease include insects such as flea, fly, and mosquito; and ticks (arachnids). [citation ...

5. Imidacloprid - Wikipedia

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   [7] [3] [8] Imidacloprid is widely used for pest control in agriculture. Other uses include application to foundations to prevent termite damage, pest control for gardens and turf, treatment of domestic pets to control fleas, [3] protection of trees from boring insects, [9] and in preservative treatment of some types of lumber products. [10]

6. Pyrethrin - Wikipedia

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   Specific pest species that have been successfully controlled by pyrethrum include: potato, beet, grape, and six-spotted leafhopper, cabbage looper, celery leaf tier, Say's stink bug, twelve-spotted cucumber beetle, lygus bugs on peaches, grape and flower thrips, and cranberry fruitworm.

7. Chlordane - Wikipedia

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   In the years 1948–1988 chlordane was a common pesticide for corn and citrus crops, as well as a method of home termite control. [6] Pathways of exposure to chlordane include ingestion of crops grown in chlordane-contaminated soil, inhalation of air in chlordane-treated homes and from landfills, and ingestion of high-fat foods such as meat ...

8. Nitenpyram - Wikipedia

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   Nitenpyram ( (E)-N-(6-Chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)- N-ethyl-N'-methyl-2-nitrovinylidenediamine) is an open-chain chloropyridyl neonicotinoid. Nitenpyram consists of a chloronicotinyl heterocyclic group common to all first generation neonicotinoids and a pharmacophore, the reactive group of the molecule.

9. Raid (insecticide) - Wikipedia

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   Raid is the brand name of a line of insecticide products produced by S. C. Johnson & Son, first launched in 1956.. The initial active ingredient was allethrin, the first synthetic pyrethroid. [1]