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Definition of Pesticides: 1) Grouped by Types of Pests They Kill

Pesticides are substances used to control pests that damage food, agriculture, or animals. They are grouped by the type of pest they target, such as insects, plants, fungi, or bacteria. Pesticides are also categorized by their chemical composition as either organic or inorganic, and by how they enter the pest's body as stomach, respiratory, or contact poisons. Common pesticides include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and chemicals like glyphosate, DDT, and malathion. Pesticides have benefits like protecting crops but also pose risks like toxic effects on humans, wildlife and reducing biodiversity.

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Definition of Pesticides: 1) Grouped by Types of Pests They Kill

Pesticides are substances used to control pests that damage food, agriculture, or animals. They are grouped by the type of pest they target, such as insects, plants, fungi, or bacteria. Pesticides are also categorized by their chemical composition as either organic or inorganic, and by how they enter the pest's body as stomach, respiratory, or contact poisons. Common pesticides include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and chemicals like glyphosate, DDT, and malathion. Pesticides have benefits like protecting crops but also pose risks like toxic effects on humans, wildlife and reducing biodiversity.

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Definition of Pesticides

Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying or controlling any
pest, including vectors of human or animal disease, unwanted species of plants or animals,
causing harm during or otherwise interfering with the production, processing, storage, transport,
or marketing of food, agricultural commodities, wood and wood products or animal feedstuffs, or
substances that may be administered to animals for the control of insects, arachnids, or other
pests in or on their bodies.

Types of Pesticides

These are grouped according to the types of pests which they kill:

1)Grouped by Types of Pests They Kill

1. Insecticides – insects
2. Herbicides – plants
3. Rodenticides – rodents (rats & mice)
4. Bactericides – bacteria
5. Fungicides – fungi
6. Larvicides – larvae

2) Chemical Nature

I. Organic: Made from natural products


II. Inorganic: Made from artificial or synthetic products

3) Mode of Entry

I. Stomach Poison
II. Respiratory Poison
III. Contact Poison

Examples of pesticides

Examples of pesticides are fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides. Examples of specific


synthetic chemical pesticides are glyphosate, Acephate, Deet, Propoxur, Metaldehyde, Boric
Acid, Diazinon, Dursban, DDT, Malathion, etc.

Benefits of Pesticides

The major advantage of pesticides is that they can save farmers. By protecting crops from insects
and other pests. However, below are some other primary benefits of it.

• Controlling pests and plant disease vectors.


• Controlling human/livestock disease vectors and nuisance organisms.
• Controlling organisms that harm other human activities and structures.

Effects of Pesticides

• The toxic chemicals in these are designed to deliberately released into the environment. Though
each pesticide is meant to kill a certain pest, a very large percentage of pesticides reach a
destination other than their target. Instead, they enter the air, water, sediments, and even end
up in our food.
• Pesticides have been linked with human health hazards, from short-term impacts such as
headaches and nausea to chronic impacts like cancer, reproductive harm.
• The use of these also decreases the general biodiversity in the soil. If there are no chemicals in
the soil there is higher soil quality, and this allows for higher water retention, which is necessary
for plants to grow.

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