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  • noun Plural form of larvicide.

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Examples

  • That's why mosquito control experts prefer to use less harmful and more expensive larvicides that target mosquitoes specifically and kill them before they reach adulthoold.

    Mosquito control official wages war against bloodsuckers 2011

  • That's why mosquito control experts prefer to use less harmful and more expensive larvicides that target mosquitoes specifically and kill them before they reach adulthoold.

    Mosquito control official wages war against bloodsuckers 2011

  • Thanks to larvicides, nylon water filters, and education, we are almost there.

    Matt Bivens: Cure Millions of Leprosy -- or Just Give Hank Paulson a Tax Break? 2009

  • There are larvicides that you can put in the water that would kill the larvae that are breeding in the water.

    CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2003 2003

  • Flies and smells: these can be reduced by: installing vent pipes topped with anti-corrosive screens; covering faeces regularly with ash; treating latrines with biological larvicides to control fly larvae; using fly traps, etc.

    17. Environmental Sanitation 1999

  • To kill the larvae, city pest-control workers use either chemical insecticides, which wipe out everything in their path, or more targeted biological larvicides that are specific to mosquitoes and related aquatic flies.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • Regina is one city that has found success with biological larvicides.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • Its program used 60 per cent biological larvicides this year as opposed to only 35 per cent last year, said city entomologist Taz Stuart.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • The biological larvicides introduce bacteria into the water that kill the larvae when they feed on it.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • To kill the larvae, city pest-control workers use either chemical insecticides, which wipe out everything in their path, or more targeted biological larvicides that are specific to mosquitoes and related aquatic flies.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

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