Sentences with phrase «insecticides do»

This product acts in the same way insecticides do since they kill the parasites in contact.

Typical insecticides do not eliminate the pupae.

Snail baits - There are many non-toxic methods to deter pests in the garden or lawn, however a large number of commercial garden molluscicides and insecticides do contain ingredients highly toxic to domestic animals.

The insecticide didn't just move into the leaves, the teen found.

In many people's opinion, that practice qualifies as «organic» — whereas using safe modern fertilizers and insecticides does not!

Not exact matches

That encouraging stat also means that many, many children still don't sleep under a bed net or in a house treated with insecticide, according to the WHO.

You need to stop saying organic crops don't use pesticides / insecticides.

So strict certification ensures Bhumi products are made (from harvest to shelf to skin) without the use of any harmful chemicals, allergens, insecticides, pesticides, toxic dyes, bleaches or finishes, does not use genetically modified seeds and uses less water than regular cotton.

do not meet traditional Dirty Dozen ranking criteria [they] were frequently found to be contaminated with insecticides toxic to the human nervous system».

I don't like to use chemical composition.Thanks in advance, Marco BudinisGenova, Italy A: Hello Marco: Unfortunately, aphids are very difficult to control without using chemical insecticides.

do not meet traditional Dirty Dozen ranking criteria [they] were frequently found to be contaminated with insecticides toxic to the human nervous system».

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.

If you use insecticides or weed killers make sure that you don't expose your baby to the grass for at least 24 hours, longer if you can!

And if you haven't read our post on the harmful effects of insecticides and pesticides in the cotton industry, please do read!

After the first three months, the application of the insecticides should be done every two months for the next six months.

Although that began prior to 2006, what did almost precisely coincide with the initial outbreaks of CCD was the emergence of widespread commercial treatment of corn seed with neonicotinoid insecticides.

Instead of spraying insecticide, they used a powder form of the larvicide pyriproxyfen, which sticks to the adults» bodies but doesn't harm them.

The world still relies on the same class of insecticides, known as pyrethroids, as it did in 1977.

Insecticide resistance is going to matter at a certain point, he says — «What we don't know is whether we are just approaching that point, whether it is 1 year away, or five or 10.»

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

This last does not involve blanket spraying with insecticides, but integrated pest management, possibly using milky spore disease (Bacillus popilliae) or parasitic wasps.

Palmer - Young notes, «Although this finding does not match the result of the initial set of experiments published in Proceedings B, anabasine is chemically and pharmacologically similar to nicotine, a well - known insecticide.

«And these levels didn't decrease much three months after treating the infested homes with heat and insecticides.»

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.

In her landmark book, she documented a litany of evils observed after DDT and other organochlorine insecticides were sprayed on landscapes, rivers, and lawns: dead birds and paralyzed birds, pigeons dropping from the sky, bird nests without eggs and eggs that did not hatch, dead fish and fish swimming in circles, cancers in humans, and a buildup of DDT in the fat of animals and people.

Thallium is highly toxic and is used in rat poisons and insecticides but since it might also cause cancer (although the EPA does not class it as carcinogen), this use has been cut back or eliminated in many countries.

Although the RNAi strategy was implemented in plants years ago, it failed as a powerful insecticide because the pests didn't all die, explains Steve Whyard, at the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, in an associated commentary (Science 2015, DOI: 10.1126 / science.aaa7722).

The researchers found that bumblebees exposed to a realistic level of a neonicotinoid insecticide (thiamethoxam) collected more pollen but took longer to do so than control bees.

Rees and Brown found that although the insecticides reduced damage to leaves, the plants did not produce more fruit or grow larger.

«If Zika breaks out here, we will have to do whatever we can to reduce the number of adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes right away, and a single insecticide application isn't going to do it.»

Plants genetically modified to produce biodegradable insecticides such as Bt are one way to solve these problems, but this approach does not work for all pests and there is intense opposition to GM crops in many countries.

Although Cheminova manufactures herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides, it does not organise its research in that way.

The researchers, however, do not know whether the women were exposed to the insecticides.

The insecticide - resistance study adds to the growing body of knowledge of what works — and what doesn't — to control the Aedes mosquito in order to lessen the impact of a mosquito - borne disease outbreak, or to prevent one altogether.

The results of the randomized, controlled trial are important because some public health departments in places where Zika and dengue viruses are endemic do not necessarily monitor for insecticide resistance.

«If you use the insecticide deltamethrin in an area with high - deltamethrin resistance, it's the same as if you didn't spray at all.

And that advice is underscored by a roundup of illnesses linked to do - it - yourself use of insecticides.

«It's an area that's not all of one type or another type, and that does make mosquito control more difficult because you need to tailor the mosquito - control activities to the specifics of the area to get rid of breeding sites and apply larvicide and insecticide effectively,» Frieden said.

It didn't sting, it didn't have a horrible smell like insecticide based remedies and it (surprisingly) also left a lot of body in their hair for about a week (probably due to the salt, which I use in my own beach waves spray for volume).

The beauty of these treatments is that they act on the lice in a physical way through dehydration or other methods and don't rely on the insecticides that many lice are resistant to anyway.

I wasn't comfortable with using insecticides anyway, so the methods I found and tested on our children didn't rely on them in the first place.

«Leafy greens like kale and collard greens do not meet the traditional Dirty Dozen ranking criteria but were frequently found to be contaminated with insecticides toxic to the human nervous system,» explain Farley and St. Clair.

But if you're culturing beetles to harvest for food coloring, you're going to make sure to feed them insecticide - free food, so I don't think we have to worry there.

What do you think the possibility is that in these foods kids could also be ingesting insecticides?

Does exposure to perfumes, insecticides, fabric shop odors, and other chemicals provoke... Mild symptoms?

Do not use pesticides or insecticides.

Organic products do not use any synthetic or non-animal or plant based insecticides or herbicides on their trees.

Organic coffee means that the coffee beans weren't grown with chemical fertilizers, herbicides or insecticides, so they don't contain harmful toxins.

When it's organic you don't any GMO's, pesticides or insecticides which would be typically found in non organic clothing which leaches out slowly and into your skin.

Hemp is an amazing fibre to use as it uses much less water than cotton, has natural insecticides, enriches the soil, produces 2 - 4 times more fibre per area than others, doesn't sun - fade, has great UV protection, holds it's shape.