A pesticide was a substance used in agriculture to treat crops to guard against pests. In 2365 William T. Riker suggested crop failures in The Armada may have been caused by mis-applied pesticides. However, as the farmer Hommun informed him, The Armada was certified organic so did not use pesticides – instead they controlled pests by introduced pest controlling insects and birds to The Armada's ecosystem. (TNG - The Space Between comic: "Space Seeds")
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| - A pesticide was a substance used in agriculture to treat crops to guard against pests. In 2365 William T. Riker suggested crop failures in The Armada may have been caused by mis-applied pesticides. However, as the farmer Hommun informed him, The Armada was certified organic so did not use pesticides – instead they controlled pests by introduced pest controlling insects and birds to The Armada's ecosystem. (TNG - The Space Between comic: "Space Seeds")
- Pesticides are merely All-American terrorist fighters made of chemicals.
- Pesticide is a Nemesis Perk. __NoToC__
- Pesticide is a fictional character from the Wild Cards series of books. Pesticide writes the society column for The Jokertown Cry.
- thumb|300px|Pesticide"Pesticide" ("Insektenvertilgungsmittel") ist eine Kurzgeschichte aus der Turtle Soup-Comicreihe von den Mirage Studios.
- A pesticide was something which deterred or killed pests. A class of pesticide, insecticide, was used against insects. In the early 1960s, Forester committed murder to cover up the far-reaching and dangerous side effects of DN6, the insecticide which he had developed. DN6 worked so effectively that, if used, it would have caused serious harm to Earth's ecology. (TV: Planet of Giants) In the 2000s, the Pharm developed pesticides from captive Weevils. (TV: Reset) In 2035, World Pest Control sprayed the Caterpillar Men with a pesticide which was non-lethal to humans. (COMIC: The Caterpillar Men)
- Pesticide use raises a number of environmental concerns. Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. Pesticide drift occurs when pesticides suspended in the air as particles are carried by wind to other areas, potentially contaminating them. Pesticides are one of the causes of water pollution, and some pesticides are persistent organic pollutants and contribute to soil contamination.
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| - A pesticide was a substance used in agriculture to treat crops to guard against pests. In 2365 William T. Riker suggested crop failures in The Armada may have been caused by mis-applied pesticides. However, as the farmer Hommun informed him, The Armada was certified organic so did not use pesticides – instead they controlled pests by introduced pest controlling insects and birds to The Armada's ecosystem. (TNG - The Space Between comic: "Space Seeds")
- Pesticides are merely All-American terrorist fighters made of chemicals.
- Pesticide is a Nemesis Perk. __NoToC__
- Pesticide is a fictional character from the Wild Cards series of books. Pesticide writes the society column for The Jokertown Cry.
- thumb|300px|Pesticide"Pesticide" ("Insektenvertilgungsmittel") ist eine Kurzgeschichte aus der Turtle Soup-Comicreihe von den Mirage Studios.
- A pesticide was something which deterred or killed pests. A class of pesticide, insecticide, was used against insects. In the early 1960s, Forester committed murder to cover up the far-reaching and dangerous side effects of DN6, the insecticide which he had developed. DN6 worked so effectively that, if used, it would have caused serious harm to Earth's ecology. (TV: Planet of Giants) In the 1970s, an improperly mixed pesticide spray caused insects to grow to giant sizes and start rampaging across the countryside. The Third Doctor discovered a formula which returned the insects to their normal size, ending the threat. (COMIC: Insect) In the 2000s, the Pharm developed pesticides from captive Weevils. (TV: Reset) In 2035, World Pest Control sprayed the Caterpillar Men with a pesticide which was non-lethal to humans. (COMIC: The Caterpillar Men) In 2172, a pesticide called GK50 was used on wasps. In an alternative timeline, the Daleks which had succumbed to the Mutant Phase were killed on Earth by consuming traces of this pesticide. (AUDIO: The Mutant Phase)
- Pesticide use raises a number of environmental concerns. Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. Pesticide drift occurs when pesticides suspended in the air as particles are carried by wind to other areas, potentially contaminating them. Pesticides are one of the causes of water pollution, and some pesticides are persistent organic pollutants and contribute to soil contamination. In addition, pesticide use reduces biodiversity, contributes to pollinator decline, destroys habitat (especially for birds), and threatens endangered species. Pests can develop a resistance to the pesticide (pesticide resistance), necessitating a new pesticide. Alternatively a greater dose of the pesticide can be used to counteract the resistance, although this will cause a worsening of the ambient pollution problem. Since chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides dissolve in fats and are not excreted, organisms tend to retain them almost indefinitely. Biological magnification is the process whereby these chlorinated hydrocarbons (pesticides) are more concentrated at each level of the food chain. Among marine animals, pesticide concentrations are higher in carnivorous fishes, and even more so in the fish-eating birds and mammals at the top of the ecological pyramid. Global distillation is the process whereby pesticides are transported from warmer to colder regions of the Earth, in particular the Poles and mountain tops. Pesticides that evaporate into the atmosphere at relatively high temperature can be carried considerable distances (thousands of kilometers) by the wind to an area of lower temperature, where they condense and are carried back to the ground in rain or snow. In order to reduce negative impacts, it is desirable that pesticides be degradable or at least quickly deactivated in the environment. Such loss of activity or toxicity of pesticides is due to both innate chemical properties of the compounds and environmental processes or conditions. For example, the presence of halogens within a chemical structure often slows down degradation in an aerobic environment. Adsorption to soil may retard pesticide movement, but also may reduce bioavailability to microbial degraders.
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