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Pesticide

Pesticides are substances or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest.A pesticide may be a chemical unicycle, biological agent , antimicrobial, disinfectant or device used against any pest...

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Abamectin

Abamectin

Abamectin is a widely used insecticide and anthelmintic.-Chemistry:Abamectin is a mixture of avermectins containing more than 80% avermectin B1a and less than 20% avermectin B1b. These two components, B1a and B1b have very similar biological and toxicological properties...

- Acephate

Acephate

Acephate is an organophosphate foliar insecticide of moderate persistence with residual systemic activity of about 10-15 days at the recommended use rate. It is used primarily for control of aphids, including resistant species, in vegetables and in horticulture...

- Acetochlor

Acetochlor

Acetochlor is a herbicide developed by Monsanto Company and Zeneca. It is a member of the class of herbicides known as chloroacetanilides. Its mode of action is elongase inhibition, and inhibition of geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate cyclisation enzymes, part of the gibberellin pathway...

- Acibenzolar

Acibenzolar

Acibenzolar is a chemical compound used as a fungicide, closely related to the methyl derivative acibenzolar-S-methyl....

- Acibenzolar-S-methyl

Acibenzolar-S-methyl

Acibenzolar-S-methyl is a fungicide that works by activating a plant's own defense system by increasing the transcription of W-box controlled genes such as CAD1, NPR1 and PR2. It is a methyl derivative of acibenzolar.- External links :*...

- Acrylonitrile

Acrylonitrile

Acrylonitrile is the chemical compound with the formula C3H3N. This pungent-smelling colorless liquid often appears yellow due to impurities. It is an important monomer for the manufacture of useful plastics. In terms of its molecular structure, it consists of a vinyl group linked to a nitrile...

- Action level

Action level

In the United States, the term action level can refer to levels recommended by EPA for enforcement by Food and Drug Administration and USDA when pesticide residues occur in food or feed commodities for reasons other than the direct application of the pesticide...

- Agent Blue

Agent Blue

Agent Blue is one of the "rainbow herbicides" that is known for its use by the United States during the Vietnam War. It was sprayed on rice paddies and other crops in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of valuable crops. Agent Blue is a mixture of two arsenic-containing compounds, sodium...

- Agent Green

Agent Green

Agent Green is the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War. The name comes from the green stripe painted on the barrels to identify the contents. It was one of the so-called "rainbow herbicides" that...

- Agent Orange

Agent Orange

Agent Orange is the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth...

- Agent Pink

Agent Pink

Agent Pink is the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War. The name comes from the pink stripe painted on the barrels to identify the contents. It was one of the so-called "rainbow herbicides" that included...

- Agent Purple

Agent Purple

Agent Purple is the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military and the Canadian Government in their Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War. The name comes from the purple stripe painted on the barrels to identify the contents...

- Agent White

Agent White

Agent White is the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War. The name comes from the white stripe painted on the barrels to identify the contents...

- Agrochemical
- Alachlor

Alachlor

Alachlor is an herbicide from the chloroacetanilide family. Its mode of action is elongase inhibition, and inhibition of geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate cyclisation enzymes, part of the gibberellin pathway.-Uses:...

- Aldicarb

Aldicarb

Aldicarb is a carbamate insecticide which is the active substance in the pesticide Temik. It is effective against thrips, aphids, spider mites, lygus, fleahoppers, and leafminers, but is primarily used as a nematicide. Aldicarb is a cholinesterase inhibitor which prevents the breakdown of...

- Algaecide

Algaecide

An algaecide or algicide is a substance used for killing and preventing the growth of algae.-Natural algicides:Barley straw, in England, is placed in mesh bags and floated in fish ponds or water gardens to help reduce algal growth without harming pond plants and animals...

- Allyl isothiocyanate

Allyl isothiocyanate

Allyl isothiocyanate is the organosulfur compound with the formula CH2CHCH2NCS. This colorless oil is responsible for the pungent taste of mustard, horseradish, and wasabi. This pungency and the lachrymatory effect of AITC is mediated through the TRPA1 and TRPV1 ion channels...

- Aluminium phosphide

Aluminium phosphide

Aluminium phosphide is an inorganic compound used as a wide band gap semiconductor and a fumigant. This colourless solid is generally sold as a grey-green-yellow powder due to the presence of impurities arising from hydrolysis and oxidation.-Properties:...

- Aluminium sulfate

Aluminium sulfate

Aluminium sulfate, alternatively spelt aluminum sulfate, aluminium sulphate, or aluminum sulphate; is a chemical compound with the formula Al23...

- Amdro

Amdro

Amdro is a trade name for a hydramethylnon-based hydrazone insecticide, commonly used in the southern United States for fire ant control. Amdro was patented in 1978 by the American Cyanamid company, now Ambrands, and was conditionally approved for use by the United States Environmental Protection...

- 3-Amino-1,2,4-triazole

3-Amino-1,2,4-triazole

3-Amino-1,2,4-triazole is a heterocyclic organic compound that consists of a 1,2,4-triazole substituted with an amino group.3-AT is a competitive inhibitor of the product of the HIS3 gene, imidazoleglycerol-phosphate dehydratase...

- Aminopyralid

Aminopyralid

Aminopyralid is a selective hormone-based herbicide manufactured by Dow AgroSciences for control of broadleaf weeds on grassland, such as docks, thistles, and nettles...

- Amitraz

Amitraz

Amitraz is an antiparasitic drug. Product names include Ridd, Aazdieno, Acarac, Aludex, Amitraze, Avartin, Baam, Edrizan, Maitac, Mitac, Mitaban, Triatox, Triatix, Vapcozin Taktic, Triazid, Topline, Tudy, Ectodex, Garial, Danicut, Ovidrex, Acadrex, Bumetran, and Ovasyn.It is an alpha-adrenergic...

- Ammonium sulfamate
- Ant chalk

Ant chalk

Ant chalk, also known as Chinese chalk or 'Miraculous Insecticide Chalk', is an insecticide in the form of normal looking chalk. It contains the pesticides deltamethrin and cypermethrin.-Controversy:...

- Anvil (insecticide)

Anvil (insecticide)

Anvil is an insecticide widely employed to combat West Nile Virus, a mosquito-borne disease identified in approximately 10,000 residents of the United States from 1999-2006. It is sprayed in Chicago and many other cities...

- Asulam

Asulam

Asulam is a herbicide invented by May & Baker Ltd, part of the Rhône-Poulenc Group, and internally called M&B9057 and used in horticulture and agriculture. It is used to kill bracken and docks also used as an antiviral agent...

- ATC code P03

ATC code P03

-P03AA Sulphur containing products:-P03AA Sulphur containing products:-P03AA Sulphur containing products::P03AA01 Dixanthogen:P03AA02 Potassium polysulfide:P03AA03 Mesulfen:P03AA04 Disulfiram:P03AA05 Thiram:P03AA54 Disulfiram, combinations...

- Atrazine

Atrazine

Atrazine, 2-chloro-4--6--s-triazine, an organic compound consisting of an s-triazine-ring is a widely used herbicide. Its use is controversial due to widespread contamination in drinking water and its associations with birth defects and menstrual problems when consumed by humans at concentrations...

- Atrazine controversy
- Avicide

Avicide

An avicide is any substance which can be used to kill birds.Commonly used avicides include strychnine, DRC-1339 and CPTH , and Avitrol . Chloralose is also used as an avicide...

- Azinphos-methyl

Azinphos-methyl

Azinphos-methyl is a broad spectrum organophosphate insecticide manufactured by Bayer CropScience, Gowan Co., and Makhteshim Agan. Like other pesticides in this class, it owes its insecticidal properties to the fact that it is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.-History and uses:Azinphos-methyl is...

- Azoxystrobin

Azoxystrobin

Azoxystrobin is a fungicide commonly used in agriculture. The substance is used as an active agent protecting plants and fruit/vegetables from fungal diseases.-Origin:...

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Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis

Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis

Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis is a group of bacteria used as biological control agents for larvae stages of certain Dipterans. Bti produces toxins which are effective in killing various species of mosquitoes, fungus gnats, and blackflies, while having almost no effect on other...

- Bactericide
- Basta (herbicide)
- Bendiocarb

Bendiocarb

Bendiocarb is an acutely toxic carbamate insecticide used in public health and agriculture and is effective against a wide range of nuisance and disease vector insects...

- Bees and toxic chemicals

Bees and toxic chemicals

Bees can suffer serious effects from toxic chemicals in their environments. These include various synthetic chemicals, such as insecticides and fertilizers, as well as a variety of naturally occurring chemicals from plants, such as ethanol resulting from the fermentation of organic material...

- Benomyl

Benomyl

Benomyl is a fungicide which was introduced in 1968 by DuPont. It is a systemic benzimidazole fungicide that is selectively toxic to microorganisms and to invertebrates, especially earthworms. Benomyl binds to microtubules, interfering with cell functions such as meiosis and intracellular...

- Bensulide

Bensulide

Bensulide is an organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used as an herbicide....

- Benzimidazole fungicide

Benzimidazole fungicide

-Uses:Also called MBC-fungicides, these were the first fungicides to be used to control eyespot in Europe from around 1974.Another use is against Sclerotinia in Oilseed Rape.-Examples:*Benomyl*Carbendazim*Thiophanate-methyl...

- Benzoylurea

Benzoylurea

Benzoylureas are chemical compounds best known for their use as insecticides. One of the more commonly used benzoylurea pesticides is diflubenzuron. Others include chlorfluazuron, flufenoxuron, hexaflumuron, and triflumuron. Lufenuron is the active compound in flea control medication for pet dogs...

- Benzyl benzoate

Benzyl benzoate

Benzyl benzoate is the ester of benzyl alcohol and benzoic acid, with the formula C6H5CH2O2CC6H5. This easily prepared compound has a variety of uses.-Synthesis:This colorless liquid is formally the condensation product of benzoic acid and benzyl alcohol...

- Bioactive paper

Bioactive paper

Bioactive paper has been developed at the biosensor stage level, which means it can detect pesticides but is not yet able to repel and deactivate toxins. However, its ability to detect potential hazards is still very beneficial to human health and safety....

- Biocide

Biocide

A biocide is a chemical substance or microorganism which can deter, render harmless, or exert a controlling effect on any harmful organism by chemical or biological means. Biocides are commonly used in medicine, agriculture, forestry, and industry...

- Bioherbicide

Bioherbicide

A bioherbicide is a biologically based control agent for weeds. Among the three major types of pesticides herbicides are used to control weeds, or undesirable plants. A bioherbicide is a biologically based control agent for weeds. Among the three major types of pesticides (agricultural...

- Biological pesticide
- Biopesticide

Biopesticide

Biopesticides include "naturally occurring substances that control pests , microorganisms that control pests , and pesticidal substances produced by plants containing added genetic material or PIPs."Biopesticides are biochemical pesticides that are naturally occurring substances that control pests...

- Borax

Borax

Borax, also known as sodium borate, sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid. It is usually a white powder consisting of soft colorless crystals that dissolve easily in water.Borax has a wide variety of uses...

- Bordeaux mixture

Bordeaux mixture

Bordeaux mixture is a mixture of copper sulfate and slaked lime used as a fungicide in vineyards. It is used mainly to control garden, vineyard, nursery and farm infestations of fungi, primarily downy mildew which can result from infections of Plasmopara viticola. It was invented in the Bordeaux...

- Brodifacoum

Brodifacoum

Brodifacoum is a highly lethal vitamin K antagonist anticoagulant poison. In recent years, it has become one of the world's most widely used pesticides...

- Bromadiolone

Bromadiolone

Bromadiolone is a potent rodenticide. It is a second-generation 4-hydroxycoumarin derivative, often called a "super-warfarin" for its added potency and tendency to accumulate in the liver of the poisoned organism...

- Bromethalin

Bromethalin

Bromethalin is a rodenticide which poisons the central nervous system by uncoupling mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, which causes a decrease in adenosine triphosphate synthesis. Decreased ATP ultimately results in increased intracranial pressure, which damages neuronal axons...

- Bromine monochloride

Bromine monochloride

Bromine monochloride, also called bromine chloride, bromochloride, and bromine chloride, is an interhalogen inorganic compound with chemical formula BrCl. It is an unstable brownish yellow gas with boiling point 5°C and melting point −66 °C. Its CAS number is 13863-41-7 and its EINECS number is...

- Bromomethane
- Bromoxynil

Bromoxynil

Bromoxynil is a nitrile herbicide, trade names include Brominal, Bromotril, Bronate, Buctril, Certrol B, Litarol, M&B 10064, Merit, Pardner, Sabre, and Torch. It is used for post-emergent control of annual broadleaf weeds. It is especially effective in the control of weeds in cereal, corn,...

- Burgundy mixture

Burgundy mixture

Burgundy mixture, named after the French district where it was first used to treat grapes and vines , is a mixture of copper sulfate and sodium carbonate...

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Cacodylic acid

Cacodylic acid

Cacodylic acid is the chemical compound with the formula 2AsO2H. Derivatives of cacodylic acid, cacodylates, were frequently used as herbicides. For example, "Agent Blue," one of the chemicals used during the Vietnam War, is a mixture of cacodylic acid and sodium cacodylate...

- Calcium phosphide

Calcium phosphide

Calcium phosphide is a chemical is used in incendiary bombs. It has the appearance of red-brown crystalline powder or grey lumps, with melting point of 1600 °C. Its trade name is Photophor for the incendiary use or Polythanol for the use as rodenticide.It may be formed by reaction of the elements...

- Carbendazim

Carbendazim

Carbendazim is a widely used broad-spectrum benzimidazole fungicide. A 4.7% solution of carbendazim hydrochloride is sold as Eertavas, an effective treatment for Dutch elm disease....

- Captan

Captan

Captan is the name of a general use pesticide that belongs to the phthalimide class of fungicides. Though it can be applied on its own, Captan is often added as a component of other pesticide mixtures. It is used to control diseases on a number of fruits and vegetables as well as ornamental plants...

- Carbaryl

Carbaryl

Carbaryl is a chemical in the carbamate family used chiefly as an insecticide. It is a white crystalline solid commonly sold under the brand name Sevin, a trademark of the Bayer Company. Union Carbide discovered carbaryl and introduced it commercially in 1958...

- Carbofuran

Carbofuran

Carbofuran is one of the most toxic carbamate pesticides. It is marketed under the trade names Furadan, by FMC Corporation and Curater, among several others. It is used to control insects in a wide variety of field crops, including potatoes, corn and soybeans...

- Chitosan

Chitosan

Chitosan is a linear polysaccharide composed of randomly distributed β--linked D-glucosamine and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine...

- Chloralose

Chloralose

Chloralose is an avicide, rodenticide used to kill mice in temperatures below 15 °C. It is also widely used in neuroscience and veterinary medicine as an anesthetic and sedative.Chemically, it is a chlorinated acetal derivative of glucose....

- Chloramine-T

Chloramine-T

Tosylchloramide or N-chloro tosylamide, sodium salt, sold as chloramine-T, is a N-chlorinated and N-deprotonated sulfonamide used as a biocide and a mild disinfectant. It is a white powder that gives unstable solutions with water...

- Chlorbenside

Chlorbenside

Chlorbenside , also known as chlorparaside and chlorsulfacide, is a pesticide. It is most commonly used as an acaricide being used to kill mites and ticks....

- Chlorfenapyr

Chlorfenapyr

Chlorfenapyr is a pesticide, and specifically a pro-insecticide , derived from a class of microbially produced compounds known as halogenated pyrroles...

- Chlorophacinone

Chlorophacinone

Chlorophacinone is an anticoagulant used as a rodenticide....

- Chlorpyrifos

Chlorpyrifos

Chlorpyrifos is a crystalline organophosphate insecticide that inhibits acetylcholinesterase and is used to control insect pests. It is known by many trade names...

- Chloropicrin

Chloropicrin

Chloropicrin, also known as PS, is a chemical compound with the structural formula Cl3CNO2. This colourless highly toxic liquid was once used in chemical warfare and is currently used as a fumigant and nematocide.-History:...

- Chlorothalonil

Chlorothalonil

Chlorothalonil is a polychlorinated aromatic mainly used as a broad spectrum, non-systemic fungicide, with other uses as a wood protectant, pesticide, acaricide, and to control mold, mildew, bacteria, algae. Chlorothalonil-containing products are sold under the names Bravo, Echo, and Daconil. It...

- Chlortoluron

Chlortoluron

Chlortoluron is a herbicide used to control broadleaf and annual grass weeds in cereal fields....

- Chromated copper arsenate

Chromated copper arsenate

Chromated copper arsenate is a wood preservative used for timber treatment since the mid-1930s. It is a mix of chromium, copper and arsenic formulated as oxides or salts. It preserves the wood from decay fungi, wood attacking insects, including termites, and marine borers...

- Cinnamaldehyde

Cinnamaldehyde

Cinnamaldehyde is the organic compound that gives cinnamon its flavor and odor. This pale yellow viscous liquid occurs naturally in the bark of cinnamon trees and other species of the genus Cinnamomum...

- Clofibric acid

Clofibric acid

Clofibric acid is a herbicide with the IUPAC name 2--2-methylpropanoic acid and molecular formula C10H11ClO3. It functions as a plant growth regulator against the plant hormone auxin....

- Clomazone
- Clopyralid

Clopyralid

Clopyralid is a selective herbicide used for control of broadleaf weeds, especially thistles and clovers....

- Clothianidin

Clothianidin

Clothianidin is an insecticide developed by Takeda Chemical Industries and Bayer AG. Similar to thiamethoxam and imidacloprid, it is a neonicotinoid. Neonicotinoids are a class of insecticides which act on the central nervous system of insects with lower toxicity to mammals...

- Copper pesticide

Copper pesticide

A copper pesticide is a copper compound used as a pesticide or fungicide. In the UK the Soil Association permits farmers to use some copper fungicides on organic land used for the production of certified organic crops only if there is a major threat to crops...

- Copper(I) cyanide

Copper(I) cyanide

Copper cyanide in an inorganic compound with the formula CuCN. This off-white solid occurs in two polymorphs; impure samples can be green due to the presence of Cu impurities. The compound is useful as a catalyst, in electroplating copper, and as a reagent in the preparation of...

- Copper(II) arsenate

Copper(II) arsenate

Copper arsenate , also called copper orthoarsenate or tricopper arsenate or tricopper orthoarsenate, is a blue or bluish-green powder insoluble in water and alcohol and soluble in aqueous ammonium and dilute acids. Its CAS number is or .-Uses:Copper arsenate is an insecticide used in agriculture...

- Copper(II) sulfate
- Coumatetralyl

Coumatetralyl

Coumatetralyl is an anticoagulant of the warfarin type. Symptoms of overexposure relate to failure of the blood clotting mechanism and include bleeding gums and failure of blood clotting after skin wounds. After one exposure the toxicity of coumatetralyl is relatively low, however if overexposure...

- Crimidine

Crimidine

Crimidine is a convulsant poison used as a rodenticide....

- Cycloheximide

Cycloheximide

Cycloheximide is an inhibitor of protein biosynthesis in eukaryotic organisms, produced by the bacterium Streptomyces griseus. Cycloheximide exerts its effect by interfering with the translocation step in protein synthesis thus blocking translational elongation...

- Cyromazine

Cyromazine

Cyromazine is a triazine insect growth regulator used as an insecticide and an acaricide. It is a cyclopropyl derivative of melamine. Cyromazine works by affecting the nervous system of the immature larval stages of certain insects....

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Davicil

Davicil

Davicil is a chlorinated pyridine derivative with antimicrobial properties, which is used as a fungicide. It can be allergenic in humans and produce contact dermatitis....

- 2,4-DB

2,4-DB

2,4-DB or 4-butyric acid is a selective systemic phenoxy herbicide used to control many annual and perennial broadleaf weeds in alfalfa, peanuts, soybeans, and other crops. Its active metabolite, 2,4-D, inhibits growth at the tips of stems and roots. It is classified in toxicity class III...

- DCMU

Dcmu

DCMU is an herbicide that inhibits photosynthesis. It was introduced by Bayer in 1954 under the trade name of Diuron.-Mechanism of action:DCMU is a very specific and sensitive inhibitor of photosynthesis...

- DDT

DDT

DDT is one of the most well-known synthetic insecticides. It is a chemical with a long, unique, and controversial history....

- DDT in Australia

DDT in Australia

-DDT:Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) was a widely used synthetic pesticide before its used was banned in many countries. It is a persistent organic pollutant with a half life of 2-15 years.-History:...

- DDT in New Zealand

DDT in New Zealand

The use of DDT in New Zealand was banned in 1989 due to negative environmental impacts.-DDT:DDT is an organochlorine insecticide that does not occur naturally. It is a persistent organic pollutant with a half life of 2-15 years...

- DDT in the United States

DDT in the United States

The use of DDT in the United States is banned, except for a limited exemption for public health uses. The ban is due in a large part to Rachael Carson's book Silent Spring.-Initial concerns about DDT:...

- Dehydroacetic acid

Dehydroacetic acid

Dehydroacetic acid is a pyrone derivative used mostly as a fungicide and bactericide. It is used to reduce pickle bloating as a preservative for squash and strawberries.Also used in antienzyme toothpastes....

- Deltamethrin

Deltamethrin

Deltamethrin is a pyrethroid ester insecticide.-Usage:Deltamethrin products are among the most popular and widely used insecticides in the world and have become very popular with pest control operators and individuals in the United States in the past five years. This material is a member of one of...

- Diatomaceous earth

Diatomaceous earth

Diatomaceous earth also known as diatomite or kieselgur/kieselguhr, is a naturally occurring, soft, siliceous sedimentary rock that is easily crumbled into a fine white to off-white powder. It has a particle size ranging from less than 1 micrometre to more than 1 millimetre, but typically 10 to...

- Diazinon

Diazinon

Diazinon , a colorless to dark brown liquid, is a thiophosphoric acid ester developed in 1952 by Ciba-Geigy, a Swiss chemical company...

- Dicamba

Dicamba

Dicamba is an herbicide. Brand names for formulations of this herbicide include Banvel, Oracle and Vanquish...

- Dicarboximide fungicides

Dicarboximide fungicides

Dicarboximide fungicides are a family of agricultural fungicides that include vinclozolin, iprodione and procymidone. Dicarboximides are believed to inhibit triglyceride biosynthesis in sclerotia-forming fungi, including Botrytis cinerea. These fungicides turn into 3,5-dichloroaniline in soil...

- 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane
- 1,2-Dibromoethane

1,2-Dibromoethane

1,2-Dibromoethane, also known as ethylene dibromide , is the chemical compound with the formula BrCH2CH2Br. Although trace amounts occur naturally in the ocean, where it is formed probably by algae and kelp, it is mainly a synthetic...

- Dichlofenthion

Dichlofenthion

Dichlofenthion is a phosphorothioate which is primarily used as a pesticide and nematicide.-Environmental fate:...

- 2,6-Dichlorobenzonitrile

2,6-Dichlorobenzonitrile

2,6-Dichlorobenzonitrile is a herbicide and a very potent toxin for humans. It is metabolized in the liver by the enzyme CYP2A6.It was discovered in the mid 50s. It has herbicidal properties killing young seedlings of both monocot and dicot species....

- 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid

2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid

2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid is a common systemic pesticide/herbicide used in the control of broadleaf weeds. It is the most widely used herbicide in the world, and the third most commonly used in North America...

- 1,3-Dichloropropene

1,3-Dichloropropene

1,3-Dichloropropene, also known as Telone or simply 1,3-D, is a colorless liquid with a sweet smell. It exists as a mixture of the geometric isomers cis-1,3-dichloropropene and trans-1,3-dichloropropene. It dissolves in water and evaporates easily. It is used mainly in farming as a pesticide,...

- Dichlorprop

Dichlorprop

Dichlorprop is a chlorophenoxy herbicide similar in structure to 2,4-D that is used to kill annual and perennial broadleaf weeds. It is a component of many common weedkillers...

- Dichlorvos

Dichlorvos

Dichlorvos or 2,2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate is a highly volatile organophosphate, widely used as a insecticide to control household pests, in public health, and protecting stored product from insects. It is effective against mushroom flies, aphids, spider mites, caterpillars, thrips, and...

- Dicrotophos

Dicrotophos

Dicrotophos is an organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used as an insecticide. Some common brand names for dicrotophos include Bidrin, Carbicron, Diapadrin, Dicron and Ektafos....

- 1,3-Difluoro-2-propanol

1,3-Difluoro-2-propanol

1,3-Difluoro-2-propanol is a metabolic poison which disrupts the citric acid cycle and is used as a rodenticide, similar to sodium fluoroacetate. It is the main ingredient in the rodenticide product Gliftor which was widely used in the former USSR....

- Dimethenamid

Dimethenamid

Dimethenamid is a widely used herbicide. In 2001, about 7 million pounds of dimethenamid were used in the United States....

- Dinoseb

Dinoseb

Dinoseb is an herbicide in the dinitrophenol family. The IUPAC name is 2-sec-butyl-4,6-dinitrophenol and its molecular formula is C10H12N2O5....

- Dioxathion

Dioxathion

Dioxathion, systematically known as p-dioxane-2,3-diyl ethyl phosphorodithioate, is an organophosphate pesticide. It is used as an insecticide on livestock and as an acaricide on citrus fruits, deciduous fruits and nuts.-Uses:...

- Diphenylamine

Diphenylamine

Diphenylamine is the organic compound with the formula 2NH. It is a colourless solid, but samples are often yellow due to oxidized impurities.-Preparation and reactivity:...

- Diquat

Diquat

Diquat is a contact herbicide that produces desiccation and defoliation most often available as the dibromide, diquat dibromide. Brand names for this formulation include Aquacide, Dextrone, Preeglone, Deiquat, Detrone, Reglone, Reglon, Reglox, Ortho-Diquat and Weedtrine-D.Diquat is a non-selective...

- Disodium methyl arsenate

Disodium methyl arsenate

Disodium methyl arsonate is an arsenic-based herbicide.Trade names include Metharsinat, Arrhenal, Disomear, Metharsan, Stenosine, Tonarsan, Tonarsin, Arsinyl, Arsynal, and Diarsen.-See also:* Cacodylic acid* Monosodium methyl arsenate...

- Disulfoton

Disulfoton

Disulfoton is an organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used as an insecticide.- Toxicology and safety :The use of the substance has been restricted by the US government. Bayer, the manufacturer, is exiting the US market December 31, 2009....

- Dithiopyr

Dithiopyr

Dithiopyr is a chemical used as an preemergent herbicide used to prevent crabgrass seeds from sprouting in the spring. Dithiopyr may alter microtubule polymerization and stability by "interacting with microtubule associated proteins and/or microtubule organizing centers rather than interaction...

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Electropositive shark repellent
- Environmental effects of pesticides

Environmental effects of pesticides

The environmental impact of pesticides is often greater than what is intended by those who use them. Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including nontarget species, air, water, bottom sediments, and food...

- Ethephon

Ethephon

Ethephon is the most widely used plant growth regulator.-History:It is manufacturered by Rhône-Poulenc and Jiangsu Anpon Electrochemicals Co. in China. Upon metabolism by the plant, it is converted into ethylene, a potent regulator of plant growth and maturity...

- Ethoprop

Ethoprop

Ethoprop is an organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used as an insecticide....

- Ethylene fluorohydrine

Ethylene fluorohydrine

2-Fluoroethanol is the organofluorine compound with the formula CH2FCH2OH. This colorless liquid is one of the simplest stable fluorinated alcohols. It was developed for use as a rodenticide, insecticide, and acaricide. Owing to its easy oxidation to fluoroacetic acid, fluoroethanol is highly toxic...

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Falcarinol

Falcarinol

Falcarinol is a natural pesticide and fatty alcohol found in carrots, red ginseng and ivy. It protects roots from fungal diseases, such as liquorice rot that causes black spots on the roots during storage. Falcarinol is a polyyne with two carbon carbon triple bonds and two double bonds...

- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act , et seq. is a United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. It is administered by the Environmental Protection Agency and the appropriate...

- Fenamiphos

Fenamiphos

Fenamiphos is an organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used as an insecticide....

- Fenoprop

Fenoprop

Fenoprop, or 2-propionic acid, is an herbicide and a plant growth regulator. The name Silvex is used in the USA. The name 2,4,5-TP is used in France and was used in the former USSR ....

- Fenobucarb
- Fenoxycarb

Fenoxycarb

Fenoxycarb is a carbamate insect growth regulator. It has a low toxicity for bees, birds, and humans, but is toxic to fish. The oral LD50 for rats is greater than 16,800 mg/kg....

- Fentin acetate

Fentin acetate

Fentin acetate is an organotin compound with the formula 3SnO2CCH3. It is a colourless solid that is used as a fungicide....

- Fenvalerate

Fenvalerate

Fenvalerate is an insecticide. It is a mixture of four optical isomers which have different insecticidal activities. The 2-S alpha configuration is the most insecticidally active isomer. Fenvalerate consists of about 23% of this isomer....

- Fipronil

Fipronil

Fipronil is a broad spectrum insecticide that disrupts the insect central nervous system by blocking the passage of chloride ions through the GABA receptor and glutamate-gated chloride channels, components of the central nervous system. This causes hyperexcitation of contaminated insects' nerves...

- Flit gun

Flit gun

A Flit gun is a hand-pumped insecticide sprayer used to dispense Flit, a brand-name insecticide widely used against flies and mosquitoes between 1928 and the mid-1950s...

- Fluoroacetamide

Fluoroacetamide

Fluoroacetamide is an organic compound based on acetamide with one fluorine atom replacing hydrogen on the methyl group. it is a metabolic poison which disrupts the citric acid cycle and was used as a rodenticide....

- Flypaper

Flypaper

Flypaper is a fly-killing device made of paper coated with a sweetly fragrant, but extremely sticky or poisonous substance that traps flies and other flying insects when they land upon it.- Effectiveness :...

- Fly spray

Fly spray

Fly spray is a chemical insecticide that comes in an aerosol can that is sprayed into the air to kill flies. Fly sprays will kill various flying insects such as house flies and wasps....

- Fumigation

Fumigation

Fumigation is a method of pest control that completely fills an area with gaseous pesticides—or fumigants—to suffocate or poison the pests within. It is utilized for control of pests in buildings , soil, grain, and produce, and is also used during processing of goods to be imported or...

- Fungicide use in the United States

Fungicide use in the United States

- Alternaria leaf spot :Symptoms of Alternaria leaf spot appear as lesions with tan spots on the leaves. The centers of these lesions become black with fungal sporulation. This infection can lead to tree death within 3–4 years of the first serious outbreak. Orchards in high humidity areas result in...

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Herbicide

Herbicide

Herbicides, also commonly known as weedkillers, are pesticides used to kill unwanted plants. Selective herbicides kill specific targets while leaving the desired crop relatively unharmed. Some of these act by interfering with the growth of the weed and are often synthetic "imitations" of plant...

- Herbicidal warfare

Herbicidal warfare

Herbicidal warfare is a form of Chemical warfare in which the objective is to destroy the plant-based ecosystem of an area. In contrast to other forms, its use is not prohibited by international agreement...

- Herbicide safener

Herbicide safener

Herbicide safeners are molecules used in combination with herbicides to make them "safer" - that is, to reduce the effect of the herbicide on crop plants, and to improve selectivity between crop plants vs. weed species being targeted by the herbicide...

- Hexachloroacetone

Hexachloroacetone

Hexachloroacetone is an organic compound with the formula Cl3C-CO-CCl3. It is also called hexachloropropanone or perchloroacetone. Numbers indicating the position of the chlorine-atoms are generally omitted as all the possible positions are substituted with chlorine. It is a colorless liquid,...

- Hexachlorobenzene

Hexachlorobenzene

Hexachlorobenzene, or perchlorobenzene, is a chlorocarbon with the molecular formula C6Cl6. It is a fungicide formerly used as a seed treatment, especially on wheat to control the fungal disease bunt...

- Hexachlorophenol

Hexachlorophenol

Hexachlorocyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-one, sometimes informally called hexachlorophenol is an organochlorine compound which can be prepared from phenol...

- Hexaconazole

Hexaconazole

Hexaconazole is a systemic fungicide used for the control of many fungi particularly Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes....

- Hexazinone
- Hydramethylnon

Hydramethylnon

Hydramethylnon is an organic chemical compound. It is also known as AC 217,300. It is in a chemical class called trifluoromethyl aminohydrazone, which is a metabolic inhibitor. It is used primarily as an insecticide in the form of baits for cockroaches and ants...

- Hydrogen cyanide

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Imazapyr

Imazapyr

Imazapyr is a non-selective herbicide used for the control of a broad range of weeds including terrestrial annual and perennial grasses and broadleaved herbs, woody species, and riparian and emergent aquatic species....

- Imidacloprid

Imidacloprid

Imidacloprid is a nicotine-based, systemic insecticide, which acts as a neurotoxin and belongs to a class of chemicals called the neonicotinoids. Although it is now off patent, the primary manufacturer of this chemical is Bayer CropScience,...

- Indoor residual spraying

Indoor residual spraying

Indoor residual spraying or IRS is the process of spraying the inside of dwellings with an insecticide to kill mosquitoes that spread malaria. A dilute solution of insecticide is sprayed on the inside walls of certain types of dwellings—those with walls made from porous materials such as mud or...

- Indoxacarb

Indoxacarb

Indoxacarb is an oxadiazine pesticide developed by DuPont that acts against lepidopteran larvae. It is marketed under the names Indoxacarb Technical Insecticide, Steward Insecticide and Avaunt Insecticide...

- Insecticide

Insecticide

An insecticide is a pesticide used against insects. They include ovicides and larvicides used against the eggs and larvae of insects respectively. Insecticides are used in agriculture, medicine, industry and the household. The use of insecticides is believed to be one of the major factors behind...

- Integrated Pest Management

Integrated Pest Management

Integrated pest management is an ecological approach to agricultural pest control that integrates pesticides/herbicides into a management system incorporating a range of practices for economic control of a pest...

- International HCH and Pesticides Association

International HCH and Pesticides Association

The International HCH and Pesticides Association was founded in July 1998 with the aim of facilitating and promoting international co-operation and the exchange of experiences within management of pollution problems stemming from the production and use of HCH and other unwanted pesticides worldwide...

- Inter-Regional Research Project Number 4

Inter-Regional Research Project Number 4

Inter-Regional Research Project Number 4 has been established since 1963 by the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service in coordination with the Environmental Protection Agency to assist in the collection of residue and efficacy data in support of the registration or...

- Iprodione

Iprodione

Iprodione is an imidazole fungicide.-Application:Iprodion is used on crops affected by Botrytis bunch rot, Brown rot, Sclerotinia and other fungal diseases in plants. It is currently applied in a variety of crops: fruit, vegetables, ornamental trees and scrubs and on lawns...

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Lampricide

Lampricide

Lampricide is a chemical which is designed to target the larvae of lampreys in river systems before their recruitment as parasitic adults. TFM is one such chemical...

- Larvicide

Larvicide

A larvicide is an insecticide that is specifically targeted against the larval life stage of an insect. Their most common use is against mosquitoes...

- Lead hydrogen arsenate

Lead hydrogen arsenate

Lead hydrogen arsenate, also called lead arsenate, acid lead arsenate or LA, chemical formula PbHAsO4, is an inorganic insecticide used primarily against the potato beetle.-Chemistry:It is usually produced using the following reaction:...

- Light brown apple moth controversy

Light brown apple moth controversy

The Light brown apple moth is a leafroller moth belonging to the lepidopteran family Tortricidae. The insect is regarded as an herbivorous generalist, and the larvae consume numerous horticultural crops in Australia and New Zealand...

- Lime sulfur

Lime sulfur

In horticulture, lime sulfur is a mixture of calcium polysulfides formed by reacting calcium hydroxide with sulfur, used in pest control. It can be prepared by boiling calcium hydroxide and sulfur together with a small amount of surfactant...

- Limonene

Limonene

Limonene is a colourless liquid hydrocarbon classified as a cyclic terpene. The more common D isomer possesses a strong smell of oranges. It is used in chemical synthesis as a precursor to carvone and as a renewably-based solvent in cleaning products....

- Loline alkaloids

Loline alkaloids

A loline alkaloid is a member of the 1-aminopyrrolizidines , which are bioactive natural products with several distinct biological and chemical features...

- Lufenuron

Lufenuron

Lufenuron is the active ingredient in the veterinary flea control medication Program, and one of the active ingredients in the veterinary flea control, heartworm prevention, and anthelmintic medicine milbemycin oxime/lufenuron .Lufenuron is stored in the animal's body fat and transferred to adult...

- Lumax

Lumax

Lumax is the brand name of a selective herbicide manufactured by Syngenta for corn production that is popular in the United States. It is based on the herbicides mesotrione, s-metolachlor, and atrazine. It is applied after planting, until the corn emerges, to control grass and broadleaf weeds....

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Maintenance fees (EPA)

Maintenance fees (EPA)

In United States environmental policy, maintenance fees are the annual fees paid by pesticide manufacturers and formulators to continue registration of pesticide active ingredients and products with the Environmental Protection Agency‎ . The fees supplement funds appropriated from general U.S...

- Malathion

Malathion

Malathion is an organophosphate parasympathomimetic which binds irreversibly to cholinesterase. Malathion is an insecticide of relatively low human toxicity, however one recent study has shown that children with higher levels of organophosphate pesticide metabolites in their urine are more likely...

- MCPA

MCPA

MCPA or 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid is a powerful, selective, widely-used phenoxy herbicide. The pure compound is a brown-colored powder.-History:...

- MCPB

MCPB

MCPB, 2,4-MCPB, 4-butyric acid , or 4-butanoic acid is a phenoxybutyric herbicide...

- Metalaxyl

Metalaxyl

Metalaxyl is a phenylamide fungicide with systemic function. Its chemical name is methyl N--N--DL-alaninate. It can be used to control Pythium in a number of vegetable crops, and Phytophthora in peas....

- Metaldehyde

Metaldehyde

Metaldehyde is an organic compound with the formula 4. It is commonly used as a pesticide against slugs, snails, and other gastropods. It is the cyclic tetramer of acetaldehyde.-Production and properties:...

- Metepa

Metepa

Metepa is a chemosterilant. It is also used in creaseproofing and flameproofing textiles....

- Metham sodium

Metham sodium

Metham sodium is a soil fumigant used as a pesticide, herbicide, and fungicide. It is one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States, with approximately 60 million pounds used in 2001...

- Methazole

Methazole

Methazole is a herbicide in the family of herbicides known as oxadiazolones....

- Methiocarb

Methiocarb

Methiocarb is a chemical mainly used as a bird repellent, as a insecticide and as molluscicide. It is toxic to humans, not listed as a carcinogen, is toxic to reproductive organs, and a potent neurotoxin. Methiocarb can also cause acute toxicity in humans if anyone is exposed to it for long periods...

- Methomyl

Methomyl

Methomyl is a carbamate insecticide. It was introduced in 1966, but its use is restricted because of its high toxicity to humans. Its current primary use is on alfalfa for forage....

- Methoprene

Methoprene

Methoprene is a juvenile hormone analog which can be used as an insecticide that acts as a growth regulator. Methoprene is an amber-colored liquid with a faint fruity odor which is essentially nontoxic to humans when ingested or inhaled. It is used in drinking water cisterns to control mosquitoes...

- Metrifonate

Metrifonate

Metrifonate or trichlorfon is an irreversible organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.it is a prodrug which is activated non-enzymatically into 2,2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate ....

- Metsulfuron-methyl

Metsulfuron-methyl

Metsulfuron-methyl is a residual sulfonylurea herbicide that kills broadleaf weeds and some annual grasses. It is a systemic compound with foliar and soil activity, that inhibits cell division in shoots and roots. It has residual activity in soils, allowing it to be used infrequently but requiring...

- Methylisothiazolone

Methylisothiazolone

Methylisothiazolones are chemical compounds used as highly effective biocidal agents against fungal and bacterial species. They are widely used as a preservative in cosmetic industry, and as a pesticide, e.g...

- Metolachlor

Metolachlor

Metolachlor is an organic compound that is widely used as an herbicide. It is a derivative of aniline and is a member of the chloroacetanilide herbicides. It is highly effective toward grasses but its application is also controversial.-Agricultural use:...

- Milbemycin

Milbemycin

The milbemycins are a group of macrolides chemically related to the avermectins and were first isolated in 1972 from Streptomyces hygroscopicus.They are used in veterinary medicine as antiparasitic agents against worms, ticks and fleas....

- Milbemycin oxime

Milbemycin oxime

Milbemycin oxime is a veterinary drug from the group of milbemycins, used as a broad spectrum antiparasitic. It is active against worms , insects and mites ....

- Miticide

Miticide

Acaricides are pesticides that kill members of the Acari group, which includes ticks and mites.Acaricides are used both in medicine and agriculture, although the desired selective toxicity differs between the two fields.-Terminology:...

- Mode of action

Mode of action

Historically, pesticides have often been classified according to their chemical groups and this is useful for understanding the properties of a given compound. However, it is the Mode of Action group which possibly represents the most useful pesticide classification for biologists...

- Molluscicide

Molluscicide

Molluscicides, also known as snail baits and snail pellets, are pesticides against molluscs, which are usually used in agriculture or gardening to control gastropod pests like slugs and snails that can damage crops by feeding on them....

- Monosodium methyl arsenate

Monosodium methyl arsenate

Monosodium methyl arsenate is an arsenic-based herbicide and fungicide. It is an organic arsenate; but it is a less toxic organic form of arsenic, which has replaced the role of lead hydrogen arsenate in agriculture. It is one of the most common herbicides used on golf courses. It is typically...

- Monsanto

Monsanto

The Monsanto Company is a US-based multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed in the "Roundup" brand of herbicides, and in other brands...

- Mothball

Mothball

Mothballs are small balls of chemical pesticide and deodorant used when storing clothing and other articles susceptible to damage from mold or moth larvae ....

- MPP+

MPP+

MPP+ is a positively charged molecule with chemical formula C12H12N+. It is toxic and acts by interfering with oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria, causing depletion of ATP and cell death...

- Myclobutanil

Myclobutanil

Myclobutanil is a triazole chemical used as a fungicide. It is a steroid demethylation inhibitor, specifically inhibiting ergosterol biosynthesis. Ergosterol is a critical component of fungal cell membranes.-References:* , PAN Pesticides Database* *...

- Mycoherbicide

Mycoherbicide

-In the United States:In the United State House of Representatives, the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 passed with the inclusion of language to initiate research into the use of mycoherbicides against drug crops in foreign countries. In particular, the U.S...

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N-Octyl bicycloheptene dicarboximide

N-octyl bicycloheptene dicarboximide

N-Octyl bicycloheptene dicarboximide is an ingredient in some common pesticides. It has no intrinsic pesticidal activity itself, but rather is a synergist enhancing the potency of pyrethroid ingredients. It is used in a variety of household and veterinary products.- External links :*...

- Naphthalene

Naphthalene

Naphthalene is an organic compound with formula . It is a white crystalline solid with a characteristic odor that is detectable at concentrations as low as 0.08 ppm by mass. As an aromatic hydrocarbon, naphthalene's structure consists of a fused pair of benzene rings...

- Alpha-Naphthylthiourea
- Nematicide

Nematicide

A nematicide is a type of chemical pesticide used to kill parasitic nematodes.One common nematicide is obtained from neem cake, the residue obtained after cold-pressing the fruit and kernels of the neem tree. Known by several names in the world, the tree was first cultivated in India in ancient...

- Neonicotinoid
- Nitisinone

Nitisinone

Nitisinone is a drug originally developed as an herbicide now used in the treatment of hereditary tyrosinemia type 1. Since its first use for this indication in 1991, it has replaced liver transplantation as the first-line treatment for this rare condition...

- Non-pesticide management

Non-pesticide management

Non-pesticidal Management describes various pest-control techniques which do not rely on pesticides. It is used in organic production of foodstuff, as well as in other situations in which the introduction of toxins is undesirable...

- Norbormide

Norbormide

Norbormide is a toxic compound used as a rodenticide. It has several mechanisms of action, acting as a vasoconstrictor and calcium channel blocker, but is selectively toxic to rats and has relatively low toxicity to other species, due to a species specific action of opening the permeability...

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Paradox of the pesticides

Paradox of the pesticides

The paradox of the pesticides is a paradox that states that by applying pesticide to a pest, one may in fact increase its abundance. This happens when the pesticide upsets natural predator-prey dynamics in the ecosystem....

- Paraquat

Paraquat

Paraquat is the trade name for N,N′-dimethyl-4,4′-bipyridinium dichloride, one of the most widely used herbicides in the world. Paraquat, a viologen, is quick-acting and non-selective, killing green plant tissue on contact. It is also toxic to human beings and animals...

- Paris Green

Paris Green

Paris Green is an inorganic compound more precisely known as copper acetoarsenite. It is a highly toxic emerald-green crystalline powder that has been used as a rodenticide and insecticide, and also as a pigment, despite its toxicity. It is also used as a blue colorant for fireworks...

- Pendimethalin

Pendimethalin

Pendimethalin is an herbicide used in premergence and postemergence applications to control annual grasses and certain broadleaf weeds. It inhibits cell division and cell elongation...

- Pentachloronitrobenzene

Pentachloronitrobenzene

Pentachloronitrobenzene, typically abbreviated PCNB, is a registered fungicide formally derived from nitrobenzene. It is either an off-white or yellow solid, depending on its purity, with a musty odor.-Preparation:...

- Pentachlorophenol

Pentachlorophenol

Pentachlorophenol is an organochlorine compound used as a pesticide and a disinfectant. First produced in the 1930s, it is marketed under many trade names...

- Permethrin

Permethrin

Permethrin is a common synthetic chemical, widely used as an insecticide, acaricide, and insect repellent. It belongs to the family of synthetic chemicals called pyrethroids and functions as a neurotoxin, affecting neuron membranes by prolonging sodium channel activation. It is not known to...

- Persistent organic pollutant

Persistent organic pollutant

thumb|right|275px|State parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsPersistent organic pollutants are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes...

- Pest control

Pest control

Pest control refers to the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest, usually because it is perceived to be detrimental to a person's health, the ecology or the economy.-History:...

- The Pesticide Question

The Pesticide Question

The Pesticide Question: Environment, Economics and Ethics is a 1993 book edited by David Pimentel and Hugh Lehman. The book argues that modern agriculture cannot completely do without synthetic chemicals, but that it is technologically possible to reduce the amount of pesticides used in the United...

- Pesticide application

Pesticide application

Pesticide application refers to the practical way in which pesticides, are delivered to their biological targets...

- Pesticide formulation

Pesticide formulation

The biological activity of a pesticide, be it chemical or biological in nature, is determined by its active ingredient . Pesticide products very rarely consist of pure technical material. The AI is usually formulated with other materials and this is the product as sold, but it may be further...

- Pesticide misuse

Pesticide misuse

Under United States laws, pesticide misuse is the use of a pesticide in a way that violates laws regulating their use or endangers humans or the environment; many of these regulations are laid out in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act...

- Pesticide toxicity to bees

Pesticide toxicity to bees

Pesticides vary in their effects on bees. Contact pesticides are usually sprayed on plants and can kill bees when they crawl over sprayed surfaces of plants or other media...

- Pesticides in Canada

Pesticides in Canada

The use of pesticides in Canada is regulated by Health Canada via the Pest Control Products Act to provide effective management of pest infestations when other methods of pest control are not succeeding for the health of the community...

- Pesticides in New Zealand

Pesticides in New Zealand

There is a high use of pesticides in New Zealand due predominantly to the large agricultural industry.-1080:Sodium fluoroacetate, commonly known as 1080, is used in new Zealand to control animal pests, specifically the possum which threatens biodiversity and carries tuberculosus...

- Pesticides in the United States
- Pesticide misuse

Pesticide misuse

Under United States laws, pesticide misuse is the use of a pesticide in a way that violates laws regulating their use or endangers humans or the environment; many of these regulations are laid out in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act...

- Pesticide poisoning

Pesticide poisoning

A pesticide poisoning occurs when chemicals intended to control a pest affect non-target organisms such as humans, wildlife, or bees.-Cause:The most common exposure scenarios for pesticide-poisoning cases are accidental or suicidal poisonings, occupational exposure, by-stander exposure to...

- Pesticide residue

Pesticide residue

Pesticide residue refers to the pesticides that may remain on or in food after they are applied to food crops. The levels of these residues in foods is often stipulated by regulatory bodies in many countries...

- Pesticide resistance

Pesticide resistance

Pesticide resistance is the adaptation of pest population targeted by a pesticide resulting in decreased susceptibility to that chemical. In other words, pests develop a resistance to a chemical through natural selection: the most resistant organisms are the ones to survive and pass on their...

- Pesticide drift
- Picloram

Picloram

Picloram is a systemic herbicide used for general woody plant control, sold under the trade names Tordon and Grazon. It also controls a wide range of broad-leaved weeds, but most grasses are resistant...

- Piperonyl butoxide

Piperonyl butoxide

Piperonyl butoxide is an organic compound used as pesticide synergist, especially for pyrethroids and rotenone. It does not by itself have pesticidal properties. However, when added to insecticide mixtures, typically pyrethrin, pyrethroid, and carbamate insecticides, their potency is increased...

- Pindone

Pindone

Pindone is an anticoagulant drug for agricultural use. It is commonly used as a rodenticide in the management of rat and rabbit populations.It is pharmacologically analogous to warfarin and inhibits the synthesis of Vitamin K-dependent clotting factors....

- Pirimiphos-methyl

Pirimiphos-methyl

Pirimiphos-methyl is a phosphorothioate used as an insecticide. It was originally developed by Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., now Syngenta, in 1967....

- Piscicide

Piscicide

A piscicide is a chemical substance which is poisonous to fish. The primary use for piscicides is to eliminate a dominant species of fish in a body of water, as the first step in attempting to populate the body of water with a different fish...

- Phenoxy herbicide

Phenoxy herbicide

A phenoxy herbicide is any member of a family of chemicals related to the growth hormone indoleacetic acid . When sprayed on broad-leaf plants they induce rapid, uncontrolled growth, eventually killing them. When sprayed on crops such as wheat or corn, it selectively kills just the broad-leaf...

- 2-Phenylphenol

2-Phenylphenol

2-Phenylphenol, or o-phenylphenol, is an organic compound that consists of two linked benzene rings and a phenolic hydroxyl group. It is a white or buff-colored, flaky crystalline solid with a melting point of about 57 °C...

- Phenylsilatrane

Phenylsilatrane

Phenylsilatrane is a convulsant chemical which has been used as a rodenticide....

- 4-Phenylthiosemicarbazide

4-Phenylthiosemicarbazide

4-Phenylthiosemicarbazide is a thiosemicarbazide used as an agricultural chemical and pesticide....

- Phosacetim

Phosacetim

Phosacetim is a toxic organophosphate compound which acts as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and is used as a rodenticide....

- Phosphine

Phosphine

Phosphine is the compound with the chemical formula PH3. It is a colorless, flammable, toxic gas. Pure phosphine is odourless, but technical grade samples have a highly unpleasant odor like garlic or rotting fish, due to the presence of substituted phosphine and diphosphine...

- DL-Phosphinothricin
- Phytotoxicity

Phytotoxicity

Phytotoxicity is a term used to describe the degree of toxic effect by a compound on plant growth. Such damage may be caused by a wide variety of compounds, including trace metals, pesticides, salinity, phytotoxins or allelopathy.-Urea and urine:...

- Possible carcinogen

Possible carcinogen

Possible carcinogen is a category of the dangers of chemical exposure as recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ .This is as opposed to "probable" or "known" carcinogen under EPA classifications of carcinogenicity....

- Potassium bromide

Potassium bromide

Potassium bromide is a salt, widely used as an anticonvulsant and a sedative in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with over-the-counter use extending to 1975 in the United States. Its action is due to the bromide ion...

- Preemergent herbicides

Preemergent herbicides

Preemergent herbicides prevent the germination of seeds by inhibiting a key enzyme. In some areas of the world, preemergent herbicides are used to prevent crabgrass from appearing in summer lawns.-Brands:-Crabgrass:...

- Pirimicarb

Pirimicarb

Pirimicarb is a carbamate insecticide used to control aphids on vegetable, cereal and orchard crops by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase activity. It was originally developed by Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., now Syngenta, in 1970....

- Procymidone

Procymidone

Procymidone is a pesticide. It is often used for killing unwanted ferns and nettles, and as a dicarboximide fungicide for killing fungi. It is a known endocrine disruptor ....

- Prometon

Prometon

Prometon is an herbicide.-References:***...

- Propanil

Propanil

Propanil is a widely used contact herbicide. With an estimated use of about 8 million pounds in 2001, it is one of the more widely used herbicides in the United States....

- Propiconazole

Propiconazole

Propiconazole is a triazole fungicide, also known as a DMI, or demethylation inhibiting fungicide due to its binding with and inhibiting the 14-alpha demethylase enzyme from demethylating a precursor to ergosterol. Without this demethylation step, the ergosterols are not incorporated into the...

- Pyrimethanil

Pyrimethanil

Pyrimethanil is a broad spectrum fungicide often applied to seeds. It inhibits methionine biosynthesis, thus affecting protein formation and subsequent cell division. Pyrimethanil works best on young fungus infestations....

- Pyrinuron

Pyrinuron

Pyrinuron is a chemical compound used as a rodenticide....

- Pyriproxyfen

Pyriproxyfen

Pyriproxyfen is a pyridine based pesticide which is found to be effective against a variety of arthropoda. It was introduced to the US in 1996 to protect cotton crops against whitefly...

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Ramrod (herbicide)
- Restricted use pesticide
- Roach bait

Roach bait

Roach bait is a modern pest control alternative used for the extermination of cockroaches at indoor locations. The effectiveness of this method of pest control exploits the cannibalistic and coprophagic tendencies of cockroaches.- Mechanism :...

- Rodenticide
- Roundup

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Scheele's Green

Scheele's Green

Scheele's Green, also called Schloss Green, is chemically a cupric hydrogen arsenite , CuHAsO3. It is a compound similar to Paris Green...

- Scilliroside

Scilliroside

Scilliroside is a toxic compound derived from the plant Drimia maritima , which is sometimes used as a rodenticide....

- Sentricon

Sentricon

The Sentricon Termite Colony Elimination System is a subterranean termite control product developed and manufactured by Dow AgroSciences. It was introduced in 1995 as a termite baiting system, the first major alternative to liquid termiticide soil barriers...

- Sesamex

Sesamex

Sesamex, also called sesoxane, is an insecticide....

- Shark repellent

Shark repellent

A shark repellent is any method of driving sharks away from an area, object, person, or animal. Shark repellents are one category of animal repellents.-Overview:Shark repellents have been of interest to human beings for many years, for a number of reasons...

- Sheep dip

Sheep dip

Sheep dip is a liquid formulation of insecticide and fungicide which shepherds and farmers may use to protect their sheep from infestation against external parasites such as itch mite , blow-fly, ticks and lice...

- Silent Spring

Silent Spring

Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on 27 September 1962. The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement....

- Simazine

Simazine

Simazine is a herbicide of the triazine class. The compound is used to control broad-leaved weeds and annual grasses.-Physical properties:* Water solubility: 5 mg/L at 20 °C...

- Sodium fluoroacetate
- Spinosad

Spinosad

Spinosad is a new chemical class of insecticides that are registered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ to control a variety of insects...

- Strobilurin

Strobilurin

Strobilurins are a group of chemical compounds used in agriculture as fungicides. They are part of the larger group of QoI inhibitors, which act to inhibit the respiratory chain at the level of Complex III....

- Sulfentrazone

Sulfentrazone

Sulfentrazone is a chemical used as a herbicide.It is the active ingredient in Dismiss as well as Solitare herbicides. It is effective for controlling sedges in turfgrass....

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Tebuconazole

Tebuconazole

Tebuconazole is a triazole fungicide used agriculturally to treat plant pathogenic fungi.Though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers this fungicide to be safe for humans, it may still pose a risk...

- Tebufenpyrad

Tebufenpyrad

Tebufenpyrad is a pyrazole acaricide and insecticide commonly used in commercial greenhouses. The compound exists as a white crystalline solid and is dissolved in water before application. It is found to be very toxic to fish, though is practically non-toxic to birds....

- Tempo 20 wp

Tempo 20 wp

Tempo 20 WP is an insecticide that has been in use since the late 1980s. It is used in commercial passenger aircraft and in schools. The ingredients were considered a trade secret and not disclosed until recently. It was initially registered with the United States Environmental Protection Agency ...

- Tephrosin

Tephrosin

Tephrosin is rotenoid. It is a natural fish poison found in the leaves and seeds of Tephrosia purpurea and T. vogelii....

- Terbuthylazine

Terbuthylazine

Terbuthylazine is a selective herbicide. Chemically, it is a chlorotriazine; compared with atrazine and simazin, it has a tert-butyl group in place of the isopropyl and ethyl groups, respectively....

- Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine

Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine

Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine is an organic compound that is used as a rodenticide . It is an odorless, tasteless white powder that is slightly soluble in water, DMSO and acetone, and insoluble in methanol and ethanol. It is a sulfamide derivative...

- TFM (piscicide)

TFM (piscicide)

TFM is a common piscicide, i.e., a fish poison used to combat parasitic and invasive species of fish.The substance was discovered in 1958 when researching means to combat sea lampreys and it remains the primary lampricide in the Great Lakes area.TFM is nontoxic to humans and other mammals...

- Thiram (fungicide)
- Tiabendazole
- Toxicity Class

Toxicity Class

Toxicity Class refers to a classification system for pesticides that has been created by a national or international government-related or -sponsored organization...

- Tributyltin

Tributyltin

Tributyltin compounds are a group of compounds containing the 3Sn moiety, such as tributyltin hydride or tributyltin oxide. They are the main active ingredients in certain biocides used to control a broad spectrum of organisms...

- Tributyltin oxide

Tributyltin oxide

Tributyltin oxide , or bisoxide, is an organotin compound chiefly used as a biocide , especially a wood preservative. Its chemical formula is C24H54OSn2. It has the form of a thin, colorless to pale yellow liquid with melting point -45 °C, boiling point 180 °C, and slight water solubility...

- Triclocarban

Triclocarban

Triclocarban , or 3,4,4'-trichlorocarbanilide, is a substance with anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties that is used in disinfectants, soaps and other household products....

- 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid

2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid

2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid , a synthetic auxin, is a chlorophenoxy acetic acid herbicide used to defoliate broad-leafed plants. It was developed in the late 1940s and was widely used in the agricultural industry until being phased out, starting in the late 1970s due to toxicity concerns....

- Triclopyr

Triclopyr

Triclopyr is a systemic, foliar herbicide in the pyridine group. It is used to control broadleaf weeds while leaving grasses and conifers unaffected....

- Trifluralin

Trifluralin

Trifluralin is a commonly used pre-emergence herbicide. With about 14 million pounds used in the United States in 2001, it is one of the most widely used herbicides. Trifluralin is generally applied to the soil to provide control of a variety of annual grass and broadleaf weed species...

- triazophos
- Trophobiosis

Trophobiosis

Trophobiosis is a symbiotic association between organisms where food is obtained or provided. The provider of food in the association is referred to as a trophobiont....