Insecticide Flashcards
Insecticide
Substance which are used to kill insects
Pesticides include
Insecticide Fungicide Rodenticide Herbicide Disinfectant Repellent Chemical to control pests
Insecticide classification
3 group
Contact poisons
Stomach poison
Fumigants
Contact poison
Kill by contact Pyrethrum DDT HCH DIELDRIN
STOMACH POISON
Ingestion cause the death
Paris green
Sodium flouride
Fumigants
Gives off vapour which have a lethal effect on the insects
Contact poison may also be
Stomach poison
Synthetic contact poison
Organo chlorine compund
Organo phosphorus
Carbamates
DDT
Contact poison
BHC OR HCH
Benzene hexachloride
Hexachlorocyclo hexane
Direct contact poison
Mala thion
Least toxic organophosphorus compound
Killing adult mosquito
Abate or teme phos
Organophosphorus compound
Control of A stephensi in well and in domestic water container
Dosage not greater than 1.0ppm
Fenthion
Smell slight garlic
Insoluble in water
As larvicide very powerful
Dichlorovos DDVP
Highly volatile liquid insecticide
Fumigant action
Disinfectant for aircraft
Propox ur
Carbamate insecticide
Used where anophelines developed resistance to both DDT and Dieldrin
Pyre th rum
Vegetable orgin Excellent space spray Contain 0.1 % pyrethrins For killing adult mosquito No residual effect
Rotenone
Control of lice, fleas,mites and ticks
Paris green
Stomach poison Insoluble in water Copper aceto arsenite Soluble in ammonia and con.acids Contain over 50% arsenious oxide Eradicate A.gambiae
Poisioning with chlorinated hydrocarbons is treated with
Barbi turates
Phenobarbitone
Specific antidote for positioning by organophosphorus insecticide
Atropine
In India natural reservoir of plague
Tatera indica
Rodents disease
Bacterial
Plague
Tularaemia
Salmoneosis
Rodents disease
Viral
Lassa fever
Haemorrhagic fever
Encephalitis
Rodent disease
Rickettsial
Scrub typus
Murine typus
Rickettsial pox