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n. (plural of pesticide English)
Usage examples of "pesticides".
Earthworms cannot tolerate chemical fertilizers and are killed by pesticides including slug and snail poison.
Santa Barbara Farmers Market who prove, week after week and season after season, that growing food without pesticides is entirely feasible and wonderfully delicious.
We opted for the neutron bomb of pesticides and thought we were winning the war.
Although TV commercials make pesticides look perfectly harmless, safety is one of the great fallacies of these chemicals.
According to a US National Academy of Science report, Regulating pesticides in Food: The Delaney Paradox, 60 per cent of all pesticides are either known or thought to cause cancer.
Many cities have established certain days and locations where people can bring in their paints, pesticides, motor oil and other toxic materials.
In 1970 pesticides killed off so many bees in Oregon and Washington that two billion of them had to be imported to pollinate the fruit trees.
It is much more effective and less expensive than synthetic pesticides, and it will not harm people or pets unless they eat it.
At present, the only way you can get IGRs is in flea bombs that also contain pesticides, but if enough people ask for IGRs without pesticides, companies will start making them.
And often after pesticides are used people do not attend to the important tasks of monitoring and detection.
The general failure of chemical pesticides to eradicate these insects is a good reason to desist from using them, given the inherent danger they present.
Botanical pesticides are not always considered safe for humans, either, and have to be used with care.
Of all the botanical pesticides, it is probably the most toxic to humans, so think of it as a last resort.
Furthermore, using pesticides to get rid of them only risks poisoning the residents.
The predatory bugs seem to be much more vulnerable to pesticides than the pests.