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- noun Plural form of
larvacide .
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Examples
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The university is currently focusing on using larvacides, which render larvae incapable of growing into adults.
Attack of the Urban Mosquitoes Aatekah Mir 2011
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Nelspruit, health officials warned that larvacides such as Larvex
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However, control strategies (e.g., larvacides) release surviving larvae from competition, resulting in the production of larger adult mosquitoes.
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Yet without truly comprehensive programs that combine insecticides, larvacides, spatial repellants, nets, combination drugs and careful monitoring of results - along with fully transparent programs and accountability for success or failure - even a multi-billion-dollar program will simply perpetuate malaria at levels that developed country bureaucrats deem "acceptable."
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