Sentences with phrase «insecticides which»

As noted above, the pupae are impervious to insecticides which is why the vacuuming is so important.

By all means, I suggest avoiding all organophosphate insecticides which tend to be neurotoxic anyway.

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.

Pesticides that are banned in the U.S. or Europe are still being used in many coffee - growing countries, especially older broad - spectrum insecticides which are highly toxic, but relatively inexpensive.

Last week we reported on a lawsuit filed by the NRDC which seeks to force the EPA to turn over test results for a Bayer CropScience insecticide which may be linked to colony collapse disorder.

Not exact matches

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.

In 1947, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) created a distinction between two types of pesticide ingredients: «active» ingredients that kill, repel, or otherwise mitigate pests; and «inerts,» which are any other ingredients intentionally added to pesticide formulations other than the active ingredient.

We sell grass - fed beef, which we raise on irrigated pasture without the use of antibiotics, hormones, supplements, insecticides or chemical fertilization.

He stopped using synthetic insecticides and anhydrous ammonia in 1969, and in 1988 began the transition to certified organic, which was completed in 1996.

We've reduced Australian growers» reliance on insecticides and improved their water use efficiency, which benefits the growers» bottom line and is good news for the environment and for rural communities.

However, unlike conventional agricultural practices which use large amounts of arsenic - based herbicide, insecticide and feed formulations — organic agriculture strictly prohibits their use — as well as a wide range of toxic pesticides with documented negative health and environmental effects that end up on and in our food supply on a daily basis.

The FAO reports that in 2001 (last year full data is available) Kenya used 303 metric tons of insecticides on its crops (215 of which were nasty organophosphates) versus 153 in Ethiopia and 69 in Rwanda.

Cotton, which constitutes 3 % of the world cropland, uses about 23 % of the world's insecticides to grow it.

Tests of the «4 - Poster» tick control system on Shelter Island, which gives a dose of insecticide to deer dining at a feeding station, has shown that approach can work, but the idea has yet to catch on with local governments.

Years ago, we used to have some kind of insect spraying equipment that looked like a pump... it had a can which contained the insecticide and a long arm for pumping the insecticide towards the target.

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.

The researchers mixed RHP with a protein called organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH), which degrades the toxic organophosphates found in insecticides and chemical warfare agents.

He is focusing on a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids, and in particular imidacloprid, which is used to coat sunflower seeds and then suffuses the plants» tissues as they grow.

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

This could be achieved using slow - killing insecticides, which should still stop malaria transmission as mosquitoes can't pass on the...

These pollutants include not only leaked motor oil — which may contain toxic substances like lead, benzene, zinc or magnesium — but also fertilizers, insecticides, plastic debris, cigarette butts, paints, solvents, sediments and other hazardous waste.

They found that a broad range of insecticides commonly used in the U.S. kill amphibian parasites, which could potentially decrease the number of parasites that amphibians must defend against.

The discussion on the banning of neonicotinoid insecticides made clear they are used systemically, starting as a seed dressing which...

Professor Martin Donnelly, a corresponding author from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: «We know that mosquito populations are rapidly evolving resistance to insecticides, which is a serious threat to the future of malaria control in Africa.

When we reach the nearby village of Birlistik, which used to overlook a bay on the sea, we see that its mud - walled huts now face an insecticide - laced desert, filled with tumbleweeds and toxic shrubs, that stretches as far as the eye can see.

But Read has demonstrated that targeting older mosquitoes — those nearing the end of their reproductive lives, which are also the most likely to be disease carriers — could largely eliminate the problem of insecticide resistance.

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.

One possible reason is suggested by the new study, carried out by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Malaria Consortium, which has indicated that although resistant mosquitoes are surviving contact with the insecticide, the malaria parasites inside those mosquitoes are affected by the chemicals.

The experiments have shown that mosquitoes collected locally are resistant to almost all pyrethroid insecticides except one, Deltamethrin, which is not registered for mosquito control in California.

Mather developed a similar «drive through» trap in 1987 called Damminix, which allows mice to disperse cotton balls treated with tick insecticide to their nests.

Another called for eliminating the veterinary drug diclofenac, which kills vultures and other birds, as well as rodenticides, insecticides, and poison bait.

Indoor spraying — which involves spraying of insecticides inside houses — has the potential to be a key part of those prevention efforts, researchers report in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

In the study, scientists used an insecticide called a chitin synthesis inhibitor (CSI), used in the Sentricon ® termite baiting system, which was invented by UF / IFAS entomology professor Nan - Yao Su.

Regulators are concerned because growing evidence shows that some synthetic chemicals — including those found in in insecticides, herbicides, fumigants, fungicides, detergents, resins and plasticizers — may disrupt the body's endocrine system, which controls many important functions by emitting hormones, or natural chemical messengers.

An insecticide — like chlorpyrifos, which alters how brains develop and leads to measurable changes in behavior and function later in life — will probably not be picked up by the proposed tests.

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.

The current study — conducted in three neighborhoods of Merida, Mexico — measured the efficacy of indoor residual spraying against adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in houses treated with either deltamethrin (to which the local mosquitoes expressed a high degree of resistance) or bendiocarb (another insecticide to which the mosquitoes were fully susceptible), as compared to untreated control houses.

For the past 20 years, there has been a rise in resistance to insecticides in mosquitoes, particularly in the Anopheles genus, some of which transmit the malaria parasite.

Research continues to show the ways in which neonicotinoids, the most widely used group of insecticides in the world, are having devastating effects on pollinator species, and new research reveals that some of these compounds are toxic to monarch caterpillars.

Traditional methods used to limit the impact of MSD include insecticides to control leafhopper populations (which are not affordable to most small - scale farmers and can be environmentally damaging), and conventional selective breeding of maize for resistance traits that naturally exist in some varieties.

«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.

The effect of neonicotinoids on the fertility of male honeybees is examined in a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B in which the authors report that the insecticide reduced lifespan of the bees in question as well as sperm viability but not sperm quantity.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has released a risk assessment for a specific neonicotinoid which reports that the insecticide may pose a risk to hives.

The team found superconductivity in the solid form of a compound called carbon disulfide, CS2, which is sometimes used in liquid form as a chemical solvent or insecticide.

Recent research was reported in an article in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, which found that high levels of road salt can alter the sex ratios of frogs; an article in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, which documented the effects of road salt and a common insecticide on wetland food webs; and an article in Environmental Pollution, which examined potential interactions between road salt, predators, and competitors in wetland food webs.

Unlike typical broad - spectrum insecticides, which kill most insects, pests or not, the Bt toxin only targets certain insect species.

The sustainability of malaria control in Africa is threatened by the rise of insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes, which transmit the disease.

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).

This spray also comes with a lice comb, which I used as much as I could one time on each child's hair, but even without consistent combing, our lice were gone within a week without the need for any insecticides.

The resulting sucralose molecule contains 3 chlorocarbon atoms, which act as insecticides because of the toxic effect of chlorine.