Insecticide

Question 1

Insecticide

Answer 1

Substance which are used to kill insects

Question 2

Pesticides include

Answer 2

Insecticide
Fungicide
Rodenticide
Herbicide
Disinfectant
Repellent
Chemical to control pests

Question 3

Insecticide classification

Answer 3

3 group
Contact poisons
Stomach poison
Fumigants

Question 4

Contact poison

Answer 4

Kill by contact
Pyrethrum
DDT
HCH
DIELDRIN

Question 5

STOMACH POISON

Answer 5

Ingestion cause the death
Paris green
Sodium flouride

Question 6

Fumigants

Answer 6

Gives off vapour which have a lethal effect on the insects

Question 7

Contact poison may also be

Answer 7

Stomach poison

Question 8

Synthetic contact poison

Answer 8

Organo chlorine compund
Organo phosphorus
Carbamates

Question 9

DDT

Answer 9

Contact poison

Question 10

BHC OR HCH

Answer 10

Benzene hexachloride

Hexachlorocyclo hexane

Direct contact poison

Question 11

Mala thion

Answer 11

Least toxic organophosphorus compound

Killing adult mosquito

Question 12

Abate or teme phos

Answer 12

Organophosphorus compound
Control of A stephensi in well and in domestic water container
Dosage not greater than 1.0ppm

Question 13

Fenthion

Answer 13

Smell slight garlic
Insoluble in water
As larvicide very powerful

Question 14

Dichlorovos DDVP

Answer 14

Highly volatile liquid insecticide
Fumigant action
Disinfectant for aircraft

Question 15

Propox ur

Answer 15

Carbamate insecticide

Used where anophelines developed resistance to both DDT and Dieldrin

Question 16

Pyre th rum

Answer 16

Vegetable orgin
Excellent space spray
Contain 0.1 % pyrethrins
For killing adult mosquito
No residual effect

Question 17

Rotenone

Answer 17

Control of lice, fleas,mites and ticks

Question 18

Paris green

Answer 18

Stomach poison
Insoluble in water
Copper aceto arsenite
Soluble in ammonia and con.acids
Contain over 50% arsenious oxide
Eradicate A.gambiae

Question 19

Poisioning with chlorinated hydrocarbons is treated with

Answer 19

Barbi turates

Phenobarbitone

Question 20

Specific antidote for positioning by organophosphorus insecticide

Answer 20

Atropine

Question 21

In India natural reservoir of plague

Answer 21

Tatera indica

Question 22

Rodents disease

Bacterial

Answer 22

Plague
Tularaemia
Salmoneosis

Question 23

Rodents disease

Viral

Answer 23

Lassa fever
Haemorrhagic fever
Encephalitis

Question 24

Rodent disease

Rickettsial

Answer 24

Scrub typus
Murine typus
Rickettsial pox

Question 25

Rodent disease

Parasitic

Answer 25

Hymenolepis
Diminuata
Leishmaniasis
Amoebiasis
Trichinosis
Chagas disease

Question 26

Rat contaminaion of food and water disease

Answer 26

Salmonellosis

Leptospirosis

Question 27

Colour coding in pesticides

Answer 27

Red -Extremely toxic
Yellow -highly toxic
Blue -moderately toxic
Green -slightly toxic

Question 28

Zinc phosphide colour coding.

Answer 28

Red

Rodenticide

Question 29

Endosulfan

Answer 29

Yellow highly toxic

Question 30

Malathion

Answer 30

Blue colour coding

Moderately toxic

Question 31

Mosquito repellent

Answer 31

Green colour coding

Question 32

Insecticide used in repellent

Answer 32

Benzyl benzoate
Ethyl hexanediol
Indolane

(BEI. Beee)

Question 33

Least toxic organophosphate

Answer 33

Malathion

Used for ultra low volume fogging

Question 34

Fenthion

Answer 34

Garlic smell
Baytex
Residual spay
Stomach and contact poison

Question 35

DDT

Answer 35

Dichloro diphenyl Trichloro ethane.
Residual effect 18 months
Organo chlorine least toxic 
Synthesized by Zeilder
Properties by Paul Miller
Used for adult mosquito

Question 36

Paris green

Answer 36

Green colour powder
Insoluble in water
Cooper acetoarsenite
Kill main against anopheles larvae as surface feeder
Stomach poison