larvicide

IPA: ɫˈɑrvʌsaɪd

Examples of "larvicide" in Sentences

That means killing the mosquitoes before they hatch with the use of larvicide.
Department could not start sprinkling of larvicide on water reservoirs and marshy areas in Rawalpindi ...
The pill has already met EPA's criteria to be classified as a mosquito larvicide to help control mosquito population.
The use of neem oil as a larvicide for mosquito control is being studied in the laboratory and field trials are planned for the near future.
Most municipalities, York included, have regularly undertaken mosquito-control efforts to stanch the spread of the disease since it first appeared in humans in Canada in 2002, including monthly treatments of larvicide on local catch basins.
Additionally, unsafe sources of drinking water can be treated with an approved larvicide, such as ABATE®*, that kills copepods, and communities can be provided with new safe sources of drinking water, or have existing dysfunctional ones repaired.
To stay bite-free, said Brandi Moritz with the Platte County Health Department, residents can treat standing water with mosquito larvicide briquettes, put on repellant, wear long sleeves and avoid being outdoors from dusk to dawn when the mosquitoes bite most.