What are insecticides and pesticides?
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insecticides are those substances which kill insects they include ovicides as well as larvacides whereas pesticides are chemicals used to remove insects which hinder the plant.
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Insecticides
⇒ These kill and destroy the insects.
⇒ Insecticides sometime causes stomach poisons.
⇒ Some natural insecticides are neem, Boening hausenia albifora.
⇒ First commercial bioinsecticide is sporeine developed in Germany, afterwards synthetic insecticides were discovered.
Pesticides
⇒ Pesticides are the chemicals that is used to kill or destroy the pest.
⇒ The pesticides was discovered by Millardet in 1882 and the first pesticides in Bordeaux mixture.
⇒ These are sprayed over crops, inside and outside human dwellings that is baygon spray, DDT, BHC etc.
⇒ After second world war, the two synthetic products were commonly used as a pesticides.
⇒ There are several pesticide depending upon the types of pests killed ir controlled.
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