There are flaps in the plastic where quarantine workers insert insecticide bombs to fumigate the gear.
Treating seeds in this way enables farmers to use lower doses of insecticide than spraying.
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Farms are being disinfected and helicopters are spraying insecticide while ground workers clear stagnant water.
They also need less insecticide, which is better for health and, maybe, for the environment too.
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Spinosad is an environmental "reduced-risk" oral insecticide that has little effect on other insects, birds and mammals.
You put the chicks out for a couple of minutes and then disinfect the nest with an insecticide.
Beginning around 2005, the foundation began experimenting with programs providing the most basic solution--bed nets laced with insecticide.
These could bypass the bed bugs' molecular armoury or work by interfering with the genes associated with insecticide resistance.
They exposed some, via contaminated pollen and sugar water, to high doses of imidacloprid, a type of neonicotinoid insecticide.
Sarin is much more potent than any insecticide, and is in fact five hundred times more powerful than cyanide.
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No, the date-palm plantations are infested with insects, and insecticide cannot be imported.
They calculate that within four years this method could even replace insecticide-treated bed nets as a way of controlling mosquitoes.
Many of them work in the squat semi-circular greenhouses of Almeria, their backs bent beneath the plastic roofs, inhaling insecticide.
Beginning in the 1940s Kistler helped create some commercial uses for aerogels, including an insecticide and a thickening agent for paint.
But it provides basic services like generic antibiotics, rehydration fluids for diarrhea, malaria medicines, insecticide-treated bed nets and, beginning soon, AIDS drugs.
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This initiative provides insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor spraying, and life-saving anti-malaria medications.
Crops protected in this way were also rated more highly for appearance and taste than those protected by insecticide, and commanded higher prices.
Another powerful in the campaign against malaria is insecticide-laden bed nets.
Instead of simply unloading the insecticide on distributors, Dow has taken the pains to continually train 1, 000 pest control companies in how to use it.
The Israeli team sprayed acacia trees in an oasis in the southern desert region of the country with a sugar solution containing the insecticide Spinosad.
Insecticide spraying by planes will be offered to certain communities hit hard by the virus as long as those local governments request it, Jenkins told reporters.
Bednets treated with insecticide, for example, have been shown to cut infection rates by half, but less than one vulnerable child in 20 sleeps beneath one.
AIDS. But it also accounts for more than half of donor spending on malaria (on such things as insecticide-treated bed nets) and two-thirds of that on tuberculosis.
Experience with vaccines, insecticide-treated bed nets, malaria medicines and HIV treatments shows clearly that it is possible to greatly expand the scale and accessibility of these life-saving interventions.
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The report examines the take-up of maize that has had the gene for a natural insecticide produced by a bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt, engineered into it.
She and her colleagues measured honey production, bee deaths, weight gain of colonies while foraging on canola, and insecticide residue on bees and in pollen, nectar, beeswax and honey.
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This is where genetically modified wheat is being grown, part of an experiment to see if the plants can repel a common pest, aphids, without having to resort to insecticide.
It also pleaded guilty in Missouri for violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) by improperly handling pesticides that had been returned by customers, the Justice Department said in a statement.
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