Transcript Pesticides

Pesticides
Substances that kill pests
Types of pesticides
About 900 active ingredients in 20,700 products
currently sold in world markets
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Insecticides: kill insects
Fungicides: kill fungi
Herbicides: kill weeds
Nematicides: kill nematodes
Rodenticides: kill rodents (mice, rats)
Molluscicides: kill molluscs (snails, slugs)
Microbicides: kill microbes
Types of insecticides
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Plant extracts (nicotine, pyrethrum, neem, etc)
Microbial extracts (BT,abamectin, sphinosad)
Insect growth regulators (hexythiazox, etc)
Chlorinated hydrocarbon (DDT, Aldrin, etc)
Organophosphates (chlorpyrifos, diazinon, dimethoate,
etc)
Carbamates (many)
Synthetic pyrethroids (cypermethrin, deltamethrin, etc)
Chloro-nicotinyl (imidacloprid, thiacloprid, etc)
Other new types (few)
Types of fungicides
• Inorganic (copper, sulfur, Bordeaux mix)
• Azole (difenoconazole, triadimefon, etc)
• Strobin (kresoxym-methyl, trifloxystrobin,
etc)
• Dithiocarbamate (mancozeb, metiram, etc)
• Benzanoid (metalaxyl, etc)
• Others