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How to use the word insecticides in a Sentence?

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Insecticides are not the best option.

Paula Shrewsbury

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are very specific types of toxins that affect these kinds of nervous systems...and these are insecticides, pesticides, organophosphates- specific neurotoxins.

Alon Friedman

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There can be horrible scenes, bees sometimes die on the spot and sometimes ... much later ... after they start consuming pollen which contains insecticides.

Rodoljub Zivadinovic

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's a difficult disease to deal with. The tools we have are modestly effective but drugs and insecticides wear out -- after 10, 20 years mosquitoes become resistant. There's a real concern that in 2020s, [ cases ] are going to jump back up again.

Adrian Hill

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have new vaccine, we have a new treatment for malaria, we have new insecticides, there is no reason why using all of these innovations when they become available we should not be able to control malaria.

Joy Phumaphi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The insecticides are virtually ready but it will take about five years to finally develop them.

Jed Stone

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is an enormous new tool for researchers interested in controlling this pest, bed bugs are now very widespread in most major cities around the world, and they have increasingly become resistant to insecticides, making them harder to control.

George Amato

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In many countries, progress is threatened by the rapid development and spread of mosquito resistance to insecticides. Drug resistance could also jeopardize recent gains in malaria control.

Pedro Alonso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think that case highlights the acute effects of insecticides, the blood cancers highlight the risks of chronic exposure.

Chensheng Lu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While RTS,S on its own is not the complete answer to malaria, its use alongside those interventions ... such as bed nets and insecticides would provide a very meaningful contribution to controlling the impact of malaria on children in those African communities that need it the most.

Andrew Witty

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While RTS,S on its own is not the complete answer to malaria, its use alongside those interventions currently available such as bed nets and insecticides would provide a very meaningful contribution to controlling the impact of malaria on children in those African communities that need it the most.

Andrew Witty

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Diamondback is a serious problem for farmers in New York State and around the world – anywhere cruciferous vegetables and field crops are grown, these moths invade and attack the crops, and they are developing resistance to insecticides, so we urgently need new tools to better control them.

Tony Shelton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We can't keep replacing insecticides every (few) years forever, in the long run we need an exit from this arms race. Either that, or we need to tone down the (insecticide) coverage.

Jo Lines

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's only in 2013 that I started to pay for fertiliser and began treating my plantation (with fungicides and insecticides) because I saw that production was slipping each year.

Sebastien Oulai

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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