Insecticide and Fungicide Board, Service and Regulatory Announcements, No.
This statement is obviously made to meet the requirements of the federal Insecticide Act.
A high percentage of the insecticide is retained by the cover and does not reach the soil.
But a proper mineral and insecticide spray usually serves to control these problems when they occur.
In either case it is advisable to disc the insecticide into the soil following application.
The 30-60 mesh granules have the advantage of penetrating even the densest cover and their application results in a maximum deposit of the insecticide on the soil surface.
He shut off the flow of insecticide and the mass-converter grew silent in the engine room below.
The ship hovered motionless, its only sound a busy droning from the engine room where her mass-synthesizer discharged a deadly cloud of insecticide into the crater.
Potash as an insecticide is not entirely new, but has never been brought out with the prominence I think it deserves.
The value of this substance for insecticide purposes, should its powers be sufficient, struck me at once, and I began investigation.
The walls should be well washed with some insecticide of this kind.
There is no insecticide that will be effective, because of the underground point of attack.
He absorbed so much insecticide that his liver incurred massive organic damage.
He had been working on an apple farm in between terms at university when he was poisoned several times with insecticide from an aerial spray on the whole orchard.
Like many other tropical plants, Clerodendron fallax is subject to attack by mealy bug, and this pest may be dealt with by hand picking or by washing the leaves with insecticide two evenings in succession.
Fir Tree Oil Insecticide has proved to be an excellent remedy.
While under glass the pests can be destroyed by fumigation; but in the open a solution of some good insecticide may be administered with the syringe at intervals of about three days, until a clearance is effected.
Dry treatment generally results in an attack of thrips, and each root must be painted with some good insecticide to destroy the pest.
Dry road-dust sifted thickly over the plants is often found quite effective, but because of the inability to apply it to the under side of the leaves the liquid insecticide will be found more effective.
Application of this insecticide should be repeated at intervals during the earlier part of the season.
The pumps in the machine keep the insecticide constantly mixed, and at the same time force the wash with great strength through the nozzle, and so to the exterior, as a fine mist; every part of the plant is thus affected.
Another approved insecticide for scale insects is resin wash, which acts in two ways: first, corroding the soft scales, and second, fixing the harder scales to stop the egress of the hexapod larvae.
DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) a colorless, odorlessinsecticide that has toxic effects on most animals; the use of DDT was banned in the US in 1972.
An effective insecticide for plant-lice is whale-oil soap.
This is a valuable insecticide and is used in several forms.
These are lime and sulphur as the fungicide and partial insecticide and arsenate of lead as a partial insecticide.
An insecticide is a poison by which the insect is killed either directly by eating it, or indirectly by the caustic, smothering, or stifling effects resulting from closing its breathing pores.
