Insecticide in example sentence

In most agricultural settings, on most of our farms, it's only the seed that's coated with the insecticide, and so a smaller concentration moves through the plant and gets into the pollen and nectar, and if a bee consumes this lower dose, either nothing happens or the bee becomes intoxicated and disoriented and she may not find her way home.

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Sumitomo had developed a technology essentially to impregnate a polyethylene-based fiber with organic insecticide, so you could create a bed net, a malaria bed net, that would last five years and not need to be re-dipped.

In less developed countries, it's estimated that 300,000 people die every year because of insecticide misuse and exposure.

Organic farmers like my husband Raoul spray an insecticide called B.T., which is based on a bacteria.

That's because these insecticide sprays are difficult to find, they're expensive, and they don't prevent the insect from getting inside the plants.

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