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| Insecticides are agents of
Agrochemicals or biological
origin that control insects. Control may result from killing
the insect or otherwise preventing it from engaging in behaviors
deemed destructive.
Insecticides may be natural or manmade and are applied to target
pests in a myriad of formulations and delivery systems (sprays,
baits, slow-release diffusion, etc.). The science of
biotechnology has, in recent years, even incorporated bacterial
genes coding for insecticidal proteins into various crop plants
that deal death to unsuspecting pests that feed on them. At the beginning 1940, our insecticide selection was limited to several arsenicals, petroleum oils, nicotine, pyrethrum, rotenone, sulfur, hydrogen cyanide gas, and cryolite. It was opened the Modern Era of Chemical control with the introduction of a new concept of insect control (synthetic organic insecticides, the first of which was DDT). Chemists, have invented alternative insecticides that attack selectively instead of indiscriminately, and that break down into nontoxic substances in the environment. Organophosphates attack insect nervous systems, much like the chlorinated hydrocarbons, but are much quicker to break down into nontoxic substances. Carbamate insecticides, esters of carbanilic acid that kill insect larvae, nymphs, and adults on contact, have gained favor because they break down even more quickly than organophosphates and are less hazardous to humans. Among the carbamates is Sevin, or carbaryl, an N-methyl aromatic carbamate ester. |
 ImidaclopridPlace of Origin: China Formulation: 98% Imidacloprid Tech, 20% Imidacloprid SC
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