Sentences with phrase «insecticides such»

Powerful chemicals such as Dursban and diazinon and systemic insecticides such as the ingredients in Proban, Prospot, and Spotton seem to be on the way out.

For instance, it could be a reaction to food, to insecticides such as lawn treatment, or to soap.

Sprays and Powders These products allow you control to what areas get treated with insecticides such as the carpet, pet bedding, couch, etc..

Environmental factors identified as risk factors in early studies have included pesticides and insecticides such as «old generation» flea dips.

And starting this year, U.S. farmers will also be banned from spraying insecticides such as this one when bees are present.

«Moreover, topical repellents should not be regarded as a monotherapy against arboviruses; other methods of bite - avoidance should also be employed, and methods of delivering insecticides such as IRS should be explored further, along with continuing investigation of spatial insecticides with both repellent and killing properties.

PCBs were used previously in for example coolants and electronic devices, while insecticides such as DDT are probably still in use in the area.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Chemical pest control products, such as pesticides, insecticides, rodenticides and fumigates, will need to be put in place to wipe out larger pest problems.

Use an aerosol insecticide for flying insects but be sure to put away any exposed food, such as fruits.

Most conventional skin, personal and hair products on the market today contain ingredients such as: TEAs, DEAs, glycols, silicones, sulphates, parabens, synthetic colours, oils and flavourings, formaldehyde (or derivatives), insecticides, pesticides and ethoxylates, just to name a few.

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If you are nursing, stay away from insecticides (especially in airborne forms such as aerosols or coils).

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.

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.

It cites a combination of factors such as pesticides, insecticides and habitat loss for the dramatic declines in bee numbers around the globe.

Such a «smart insecticide» could target mosquitoes without affecting other insects, Wolfner added.

Such high levels of genetic variation poise mosquito populations to rapidly evolve in response to our efforts to control them whether that be with insecticides or any other control measure, including gene drive.»

He believes resources would be better spent on other control measures: insecticides, sanitary measures such as eliminating standing water in homes, and even the experimental release of genetically engineered mosquitoes to spread a lethal gene.

Public health measures in Africa such as insecticide - treated bed nets and insecticide - spraying have helped reduce the numbers of malaria cases since 2000, but many mosquitoes have evolved resistance to insecticides.

Since the early 2000s, U.S. farmers have dramatically increased their use of controversial insecticides suspected of playing a role in the decline of pollinating insects, such as honeybees.

Wealthy residents or tourists in high - rise apartment buildings with screened windows, air conditioning and regular spraying of insecticides, even if located adjacent to these slums, are less likely to be exposed to such mosquitoes.

Such tools will allow control programs to detect and track resistance at an early stage in the field, which is an essential requirement to successfully tackle the growing problem of insecticide resistance in vector control.

The Cornel lab at Kearney and the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District are conducting myriad laboratory and field research trials to evaluate insecticide treatment options, to minimize potential mosquito breeding sites, and to understand Aedes aegypti biology and behavior in order to inform control decisions should such an outbreak occur.

However, when the scientists accounted for other factors known to influence concentrations — such as a mother» s age and how much fish she ate — the association was significant for only two chemicals: a byproduct of the insecticide lindane called beta - HCH and a DDT metabolite.

Several approaches may be needed, such as introducing fly - parasitizing wasps, removing chicks from nests for hand - rearing, raising sterile male flies to mate with females so they can't lay eggs in finch nests, and using insecticides, including placing pesticide - treated cotton balls where birds can collect them to self - fumigate their nests.

Vector borne disease control often relies on universal distribution of interventions, such as long - lasting insecticide treated bednets for malaria and mass drug administration for filariasis.

In addition, Scott suggests alternating insecticides over a season or each month and using biological control agents such as tiny parasitoid wasps.

While at sublethal levels, insecticide damage may not be evident, even such low level exposure clearly contributes to the inability of a honeybee to forage and return to the hive, which could result in declining bee populations.

«Furthermore, if the intervention providing personal protection has killing capabilities such as walls sprayed, or nets treated with insecticides, the chances of mosquito survival to an age at which a previously - ingested parasite is infective, or a virus has reached a sufficient level of viremia to be transmissible, becomes yet slimmer because mosquitoes typically feed every 2 to 3 days, making at least one encounter with a protected person highly probable during the pathogen's incubation period.

This new data set is a quantum leap in terms of the breadth and depth of data now available for researchers studying how the species has become such an effective transmitter of malaria, and tracking the emergence and spread of insecticide resistance.

They recommend that in addition to the conventional methods used such as insecticides, increased inspections of agricultural products as well as quarantines of products infested with the little fire ant could be useful ways to control this intrusive species.

Similarly, evolutionary biologists have known since Charles Darwin that natural selection eliminates inherited traits that reduce organisms» fitness, such as mosquitoes» susceptibility to the insecticide DDT.

Recent successes in malaria control have been largely attributable to the deployment of insecticide - based vector control tools such as bed nets and indoor residual spraying.

The loss of milkweed plants due to extensive herbicide use and changes in farming practices, such as the widespread adoption of herbicide - resistant crops, has been identified as a major contributing factor of monarch's decline in the eastern U.S. Disease, climate change, widespread insecticide use, and loss or degradation of nectar - rich habitat may also be contributing to declines.

Choose insecticides that are more specific in the types of invertebrates they kill, such as Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that kills only caterpillars that consume treated foliage.

Environmental pollutants, such as commonly used insecticides and chemicals in plastics, can impair pituitary gland function, resulting in dysfunction of testosterone - producing cells in the testicles of men and alterations in the reproductive cycles of women.

In addition, every day you're exposed to chemicals in your diet and environment such as pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, alcohol, cosmetics, cleaning products and polluted air.

Synthetic xenoestrogens imitate oestrogen and are widely used industrial chemical compounds such as pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, plastics, and preservatives in cosmetics (e.g. parabens).

Toxins can be either exogenous or endogenous; exogenous toxins come from external sources, including environmental by - products, heavy metals, insecticides, pesticides, fragrances, cleansers, plastics, MSG, aspartame and house hold cleaners, whereas endogenous toxins are produced within us as a result of metabolic activities, such as carbon dioxide, lactic acid, urea, poor gut bacteria and intestinal yeast, in the event that dysbiosis (an imbalance of gut flora) is present.

These include herbicides and insecticides, vehicle and factory emissions, heavy metals in our food and cosmetics, and cleaning products laden with chemicals such as benzene and chlorine.

Never leave anything out that can be harmful such as cigarette butts, slug pellets or other fertilisers, poisons or insecticides

Indeed, dirt may often contain chemicals such as fertilizers and traces of toxins such as weed killers and insecticides.

Many dogs develop allergic reactions to fleabites and require constant treatment with products such as Advantage or Revolution topical insecticides that kill 99.9 % of fleas within 24 hours of an infestation.

Flea Pupae - or fleas in the cocoon stage, are resistant to environmental changes such as freezing, drying, and both insecticides and insect growth regulators.

This can be such things as cleaning products, human shampoos, insecticides, perfumes, rubber and plastic.

Other causes of pancreatitis include infection, injury to the abdomen, ingestion of medications, and insecticides to control fleas and ticks, such as organophosphates.

Some treatments, such as food grade diatomaceous earth, or DE (not the DE used for pools), work by mechanically «slicing» the flea, they are not a chemical insecticide.

Permethrin belongs to the class of insecticides known as pyrethroids and as such its mechanism of action is similar to all members of the group.