There is no magic bullet for keeping your garden and indoor plants free from insect pests. Some tricks I have learned over the years provide ways to cope with bugs without resorting to nasty chemicals. Here are my tips for pest control, including homemade insecticidal sprays (soap sprays) and...
Al-rubaye AF, Hameed IH, Kadhim MJ (2017) A review : Uses of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) technique for analysis of bioactive natural compounds of some plants. Int J Toxicol Pharmacol Res 9:81–85. https://doi.org/10.25258/ijtpr.v9i01.9042 Ananda GSR, Somashekar RK ...
Some pesticides persist in the soil long enough for plants planted in a field to be exposed to them years later. 2.2.3. Movement in Runoff Water Pesticides that are either dissolved in or suspended in runoff waters travel across the soil surface from the application location when they are ...
Our Decemberreporton the aphids infesting the Manic Gardener’s indoor tomatoes has continued to fascinate viewers everywhere,so we recently sent a crew for a follow-up story. The unfortunate events surrounding this interview have been vastly exaggerated, leading to the promulgation of false informatio...
Use of buffering and other means to improve results of problematic pesticides in a fast and easy method for residue analysis of fruits and vegetables. A modification that entails the use of buffering during extraction was made to further improve results for certain problematic pesticides (e.g., ...
but only until the toxicity of the product breaks down. These home products have become safer for humans, but they must be reapplied, and the cycle begins again if the goal is to stay pest-free. While the bugs are dying, families are repeatedly exposed. The EPA says indoor air quality ...
Worse, misapplication of pesticides inside the home can lead to serious indoor health hazards for the building's human or pet occupants. On the other hand, as our photo at left (termite mud tubes) illustrates, even with care to avoid or fix building leaks (a key attractant to classes of...
Figure 1. Dispersion pathway of pesticides in the ecosystem and their volatilization through plants and soil process (modified from Galon et al. [122]). Sultana et al. [153] evaluated the contamination status of OCPs and their associated potential for air–soil exchange from ecologically importan...
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However, these pesticides were found less effective for pest control and were highly toxic and poisonous to animals and plants (Chandra Yadav and Linthoingambi Devi, 2017). The second generation of pesticides were organochlorines such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and replaced the first ...