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Repellent can also help, as can treating your yard with acaricides — a type of pesticide focused on ticks and mites.
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Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
Large-scale habitat control or acaricide (tick-killing) treatment of wildlife, though possible, can be difficult or not cost-effective for homeowners.
—Joyce Sakamoto, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
Large-scale habitat control or acaricide (tick-killing) treatment of wildlife, though possible, can be difficult or not cost-effective for homeowners.
—Joyce Sakamoto, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acaricide
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As another preemptive step, which may be easier than physically sealing gaps around your house, spray pyrethroid insecticides around any openings into the home.Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
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Crews will begin spraying insecticide from trucks within an expanded perimeter on Monday.Paul Sisson, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024
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At least one type of pesticide was found in 163 of the 207 samples.Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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Manicured landscaping is restricted to 3,000 square feet per lot and the use of pesticides and other chemicals is prohibited.Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 17 Oct. 2024
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Create Your Garden is a partnership with customers in which the water company covers the cost of a professional landscaper’s plan for a new landscape, herbicides to help kill a lawn and fresh plants, mulch and parts needed to install a drip irrigation system for the new yard.Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
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Some recommend buying herbicide, cutting all stems to the ground, and painting the ends with glyphosate.Steve Bender, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2024
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Four agrochemical companies now control the vast majority of commercial seeds in the U.S., along with most of the insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides sold for agricultural use, as well as the digital technology used for harvest.Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024
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These notes can guide care, such as dormant spray with an organic fungicide, and inform next year’s plant choices for your vegetable garden.Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
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One concern is that toxicants in the sharks’ livers can hinder production of vitellogenin, which becomes the yolk needed for egg cells.ByErik Stokstad, science.org, 19 July 2024
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Since toxicants can be found in both healthy and unhealthy foods, this research suggests that some foods can contain a mix of components that are both beneficial and harmful for sleep.Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
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In addition to enzymes, Burr promoted agricultural innovations in the fields of robotics, sensors and biopesticides.Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
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According to Daniel, charcoal acts as a natural biopesticide, keeping bugs and bacteria away from the plants and allows better airflow between the roots.Anna Braz, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
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“Acaricide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acaricide. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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