Bug-killing chemical

Usage examples of insecticide.

Emerald green is copper acetoarsenite, also called Paris green and used as an insecticide.

Many flea insecticides contain organophosphates and carbamates, which attack the nervous system.

Ask around for exterminators who use this Peter Pan treatment instead of more toxic insecticides.

Their entire lives are spent hunting and devouring bugs, and they have been called the dominant predators on earth because they kill more insects than birds do and destroy them more efficiently than insecticides.

Every few years, agricultural authorities spray literally tonnes of insecticide on the developing swarms.

South American plant, this botanical insecticide was discovered in the early 1940s and has proved good for control of codling moths in apple, pear and quince trees.

It chronicled her cock-tailed devolution from Delaware insecticide heiress elegantly tamping shreds of hard-boiled egg onto crustless toast triangles, loving the attention, then shamelessly hamming it up, becoming a haggard mal vivant gurgling fragments of sea shanties into the pipes beneath the kitchen sink.

Despite the insecticide, horseflies, deerflies and mosquitoes followed.

Pill bottles, rat poison, roach powder, cleaning and disinfecting agents, garden insecticides, that kind of thing.

He claimed in his interview that he was an agricultural engineer and that the formulas related to the production of a new insecticide.

They will sell us the insecticide, the bleaching powder and the water filtration units for the cost of production plus ten percent.

Their parents had all been killed by insecticides sprayed from the air, and a bush pilot had brought them to Guayaquil, where they had become children of the streets.

It had taken long and hard thought to decide what to use to replace the flea and lice-killing insecticide made from the equisetic acid she would have extracted with an infusion from the fern.

Shining brightly in through the large high windows of the warehouse, the morning sun lit up countless squadrons of the intermingled wasps, flies, vrills, grates, snurks, hornets, gnats, shothole beetles and other pests, that drifted and darted through rolling clouds of this latest insecticide.

Our insecticide of choice is hexachlorobenzene, which is easier for us to produce than the DDT that Grantville is making.