Sentences with phrase «by insecticide»

Aldi has taken further precautionary measures to prevent the sale of eggs tainted by the insecticide fipronil.

As a result, the insect is paralyzed and killed by the insecticide, but your pet isn't affected by the preventative.

Vacuuming prior to the application of a spray to the house is recommended because the vibrations will encourage newly developed fleas to emerge from pupae, which will be killed by the insecticide.

Anyway, DDT was banned in 1972, and replaced by the insecticide dieldrin, subsequently found to be so toxic it was outlawed in 1974.

Hive - bound young honey bees (Apis mellifera) are being poisoned by insecticide and weed killer gathered by their foraging hive mates, according to new research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

«Even with the decline of other mosquito vectors our study shows the difficulty posed by insecticide resistance in terms of malaria elimination,» continued Professor Hemingway.

I think they may be immune to it and that the natural enemies have been eliminated by the insecticide that I spray.

Lu now argues that bees can undergo a chronic poisoning if their hives» honey was tainted by insecticides that the pollinators encountered months earlier.

Not exact matches

Naled is commonly used across the US, particularly after mosquito - breeding disasters like hurricanes or floods, and the chemical is approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in insecticide.

It's also one of the top manufacturing centers for rubber products, insecticides, fertilizers and petrochemicals, which are all by - products of the oil and gas industries.

A second consequence of the features of the food cycle is that when toxins such as the insecticide DDT get absorbed by plants, they get concentrated at each successive food level.

What I have described is a thoroughgoing neo-Darwinian interpretation of the evolution of resistance to an insecticide by insects.

Table 68: Japan Insecticides Container Material and Type by Volume of Packaged Goods (Million Litres), 2008 — 2018

Table 70: Japan Insecticides Closure Material and Type by Volume of Packaged Goods (Million Litres), 2008 — 2018

«The effect of BT crops has been a dramatic reduction in insecticides in the developing world and reduced use by 37 percent,» Van Eenennaam noted.

[9] Cotton accounted for 5.7 % by value of all the plant protection chemicals sold that year, including 16.1 % of all insecticide sales, 3.9 % of herbicide sales, 4 % of growth regulators / desiccants / defoliants, and 1 % of world fungicide sales.

They can be controlled, but probably not eliminated, by closing up the greenhouse and fumigating it by spraying a flying insect insecticide.

We always prefer mechanical removal of pests by water spraying or gentle scraping rather than the application of chemical insecticides.

According to a report done by the National Research Council, 30 % of commonly used insecticides, 60 % of herbicides, and 90 % of fungicides are potential carcinogens.

Our cotton and bamboo fibers are cultivated by farmers using absolutely no GMO's, herbicides, pesticides or insecticides.

For instance, the insecticide lindane, once used to protect crops such as barley, wheat, and corn from pests, is no longer used by farms in Canada, and has been banned in over 50 countries around the world.

Mrs. Alarbi said studies showed that for babies born to HIV - infected mothers, the use of niverapine drug combined with baby formulas to prevent mother - to - child transmission, could reduce child mortality to only two per cent of under - five mortality and morbidity while the use of insecticide - treated bed nets could reduce it by six per cent.

Starting in a particular month, all the streets, houses along with surrounding bushes, close - by swamps and water bodies should be sprayed with a specific insecticide.

The PSMP aims to accelerate private sector workplace investments in malaria prevention as it will support employers by facilitating cost - effective Insecticide Treated Net (ITN) distribution plans while providing workplace malaria education sessions for company staff and community members.

Thanks to the distribution of 400 million mosquito nets coated with insecticide, and hundreds of millions of testing kits and treatment courses, made possible by the committed efforts of the world's largest investors in the malaria effort, notably, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the World Bank, malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased by one third over the past ten years.

In dealing with this menace, Government has mobilised support for farmers by supplying them with seventy two thousand seven hundred and seventy four (72,774) litres of insecticide.

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«Similarly, the cocoa mass spraying exercise was changed from the normal model of spraying by gangs to the distribution of sub-standard insecticides and fungicides to farmers to spray their own farms.

The focus on bio-rational products is to ensure minimum pest resistance by the army worms, which is higher with the use of synthetic insecticides.

A recent scientific literature review conducted by researchers in the U.K., Japan, France and Italy concluded that exposure to systemic insecticides, including neonics, renders bees more susceptible to numerous diseases.

Scientists are testing methods ranging from selective insecticide spraying to intelligent robotic traps to curb disease - carrying mosquitoes by harnessing the power of data collection and targeted interventions, according to a presentation at the AAAS annual meeting.

This study's finding — based on analysis of data from 1995 to 2014 — that the decline in under - five death was also accompanied by increases in PMI - funded malaria prevention technologies, such as insecticide treated nets and indoor residual spraying that are known to be effective malaria interventions, provides compelling and important new evidence of the likely effects of PMI funding.

In theory, spraying two different types of insecticide at once postpones resistance, as bugs that resist one type are killed by the other.

In a study by the US Department of Agriculture, almost every apple tested contained residues of insecticides, fungicides and herbicides.

Genetic insecticides promise to pick off pests — even cockroaches — species by species while leaving all other animals unharmed

The warning should allow authorities to pre-empt the outbreak by putting down insecticide.

In a Nature paper last year, a group led by Simon Hay at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom estimated that between 2000 and 2015, some 633 million malaria deaths were averted, with 68 % of that decline due to insecticide - treated bed nets and 10 % to IRS.

Two new mosquito killers could be on the market as soon as 2017: SumiShield, developed by Japanese company Sumitomo Chemical, and chlorfenapyr, an insecticide mostly used to control cat fleas, developed by BASF.

Manufacturer Bayer CropScience agreed to stop producing aldicarb, a highly toxic insecticide used to kill pests on cotton and several food crops, by 2015 in all world markets.

INSECTICIDE resistance in malarial mosquitoes could be wiped out for good, paradoxically by using slow - killing agents.

Malaria transmission can be reduced by preventing mosquito bites with mosquito nets and insect repellents, or by mosquito control by spraying insecticides inside houses and draining standing water where mosquitoes lay their eggs.

«We did what was asked of us by the EPA to keep the product available as a fly insecticide.»

By midcentury, scientists had isolated the bacteria's toxic protein and were able to manufacture it in large - enough quantities to commercialize it as a spray - on insecticide.

But 25 percent of the malaria infections among children could be eradicated by distributing new insecticide - treated bed nets that would cost $ 7 apiece.

By BOB HOLMES Forty years after the dawn of the pesticide age, Asia's rice farmers are realising that their love affair with insecticides has been an unnecessary, expensive and sometimes dangerous mistake.

Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes and rising resistance to insecticides is hampering efforts to control the disease.

I am very pleased that a sound scientific risk approach has been taken by the European Union in its decision not to suspend use of neonicotinoid insecticides, as proposed last year (7 April 2012, p 18).

Given the fact that DDT does appear to be effective at fending off malaria mosquitoes in some places, its use would seem logical — but if applications do become more widespread, users may encounter a problem that Carson herself highlighted in Silent Spring: resistance to the insecticide by the Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malaria, says Michael Fry.

There's still plenty of debate focused on whether the monocultures and dependencies fostered by first - generation GMO products like Monsanto's pest - resistant corn and cotton and Roundup Ready soybeans nullify their purported benefits of higher yields and reduced insecticide use.

Rohr is now investigating the impact of insecticides on snail predators and disease transmission in northwest Senegal, as part of an experiment run by a research partnership called the Upstream Alliance, based in Pacific Grove, California.