Background of insecticides

How many groups of insecticides?

42 groups

What type of insecticide was first used?

inorganic pesticides like sulfur and cryocite

What are the key differences in soaps and insecticidal soaps?

Insecticidal soaps actually need to be registered to kill pest with the epa.

Where are you going to use insecticidal soaps?

Against soft bodied insects and immature insects

What is a botanical and how can it be either organic or not approved?

Botanicals come from plant extracts (organic) but synthetic strands of the active ingredient can be made.

What is the most famous and used microbial pesticide? How is it mainly used

Bacillus thuringiensis

(Bt). Bt plants can be produced to make BT on their own.

What are the 4 main types of biopesticides?

Bacterial, fungal, nematodes, and viral

How are most biopesticides going to work?

They either attack midgut or directly impede insect.

How many commercial species of BT are there?

5 species

What is Nosema locustae used on?

Used on grasshoopers and destroys midgut

What are the 3 main ways a pesticide is going to enter a pest?

Stomach, dermal, and fumigant.

What does translaminar mean?

It is systemic but only around the area it makes contact with.