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insecticide

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An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place. William A. Dembski

“At around 6pm, he drank an insecticide and started calling for his brother, Tafadzwa, who asked their father Josiah to help break down the door to Takudzwa’s bedroom,” said Insp Mundembe. Source: Internet

Bed nets should be tucked under mattresses and can be sprayed with a repellent if not already treated with an insecticide. Source: Internet

Example The example above is converted into the following augmented form: : where are (non-negative) slack variables, representing in this example the unused area, the amount of unused fertilizer, and the amount of unused insecticide. Source: Internet

In India, the diamondback moth has caused losses up to 90 percent in crops that were not treated with insecticide. Source: Internet

If they persist, buy a powder insecticide and puff this into all those places you suspect the insects are hiding and breeding. Source: Internet

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