"pesticide" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A soil drench (now) of acephate (Orthene), which is a systemic pesticide, does appear to keep the population under control.
- Two things are suggested: apply a systemic pesticide to the pots a week or so before taking them indoors.
- Their testing requirements are also not designed to determine effects in bees from exposure to systemic pesticides.
- But removing edible peels can also reduce exposure to systemic pesticides inside the fruit or vegetable, which will not disappear with washing.
- As a systemic pesticide, imidacloprid translocates or moves easily in the xylem of plants from the soil into the leaves, fruit, pollen, and nectar of a plant.
- A systemic pesticide, imidacloprid, commonly used on sucking insects like aphids and fleas, is being tested for effectiveness by the Agriculture Department.
- Although she does not usually spray, Mrs. Patterson had the hemlocks sprayed and injected with systemic pesticides to treat the adelgid infestation.
- Since clothianidin is a systemic pesticide that is taken up by the plant, there is also potential for long-term effects to bees and other pollinators from clothianidin residue in pollen and nectar.
- Particularly the effects of systemic pesticides, which in effect make the whole plant poisonous to pollinators, but I see no discussion or acknowledgement of this in many of the comments.
- In addition, the bee population has been declining in certain places at the same time, one cause being the use of systemic neurotoxic pesticides to treat the seeds of certain crops.
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