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  • noun A pesticide designed to kill adult insects rather than their larvae

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Examples

  • Grand Forks, N.D., that city uses permethrin -- a biological adulticide that is safer for workers than the malathion Winnipeg uses.

    News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio 2010

  • Application rates are less than three-quarters of an ounce of adulticide per acre and no diesel fuel is required to carry the chemical down to the mosquitoes.

    naplesnews.com Stories 2010

  • We may put a plane up and adulticide mosquitoes with the airplane.

    AA Home - KPVI News 6 2010

  • The truck-based spray system disperses a mosquito adulticide from a slow-moving truck at

    Sentinel & Enterprise Most Viewed 2010

  • Application rates are less than three-quarters of an ounce of adulticide per acre and no diesel fuel is required to carry the chemical down to the mosquitoes.

    marconews.com Stories 2010

  • This product can be applied by conventional ground based ULV applications, however it is best suited as an aerial applied adulticide.

    News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio 2010

  • Support for community mosquito reduction and education programs, combined with the use of proven larvicide and adulticide products, is the most effective action communities can take to prevent West Nile virus from becoming a major public health risk.

    unknown title 2009

  • The districts would be able to cover their 25-percent match through in-kind services, including adulticide application or the purchase of equipment used for mosquito-control purposes.

    Addison County Independent - Covering the 23 towns of Addison County, Vermont 2009

  • The districts would be able to cover their 25-percent match through in-kind services, including adulticide application or the purchase of equipment used for mosquito-control purposes.

    Addison County Independent - Covering the 23 towns of Addison County, Vermont 2009

  • Support for community mosquito reduction and education programs, combined with the use of proven larvicide and adulticide products, is the most effective action communities can take to prevent West Nile virus from becoming a major public health risk.

    unknown title 2009

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