Pesticides and Pest Control

Dicofol is an organochlorine pesticide that is chemically related to DDT. Dicofol is a miticide that is very effective against red spider mite.

Carbonyl sulfide is used  as a herbicide. Carbonyl sulfide is a potential alternative fumigant to methyl bromide and phosphine. In some cases, however, residues on the grain result in flavours that are unacceptable to consumers, e.g., barley used for brewing.

Indulines are a series of dyestuffs of blue, bluish-red or black shades, formed by the interaction of para-amino azo compounds with primary monoamines in the presence of a small quantity of a mineral acid. These are not the insect repellents .

Phosphorus pentasulfide is an inorganic compound with the formula P₄S₁₀. This yellow solid is the one of two phosphorus sulfides of commercial value. Samples often appear greenish-gray due to impurities. It is also used in the production of pesticides such as Parathion and Malathion.

Methyl cyanoformate is the organic compound with the formula CH₃OC(O)CN. This colourless liquid is used as a reagent in organic synthesis as a source of the methoxycarbonyl group. It is also an active ingredient in the pesticide product Zyklon A. It is also known as Mander's reagent.

Depending on whose definition is used, organic farming uses fertilizers and pesticides (which include herbicides, insecticides and fungicides) if they are considered natural (such as bone meal from animals or pyrethrin from flowers), but it excludes or strictly limits the use of various methods (including synthetic petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides; plant growth regulators such as hormones; antibiotic use in livestock; genetically modified organisms; human sewage sludge; and nanomaterials.)

Picloram is a pyridine herbicide. It is mainly used to control unwanted trees in pastures and edges of fields in India. It is another synthetic auxin.

The fungus Beauveria bassiana is used to prevent potato beetle and codling moth.

Weeds also vary in their competitive abilities and according to conditions and season. Tall-growing vigorous weeds such as fat hen (Chenopodium album) can have the most pronounced effects on adjacent crops, although seedlings of fat hen that appear in late summer produce only small plants.

Allethrins are synthetic pyrethroids. The compounds have low toxicity for humans and birds and are used in many household insecticides such as RAID and mosquito coils.

 The specimens need poisoning to keep away insects and fungal pests. All of these are used for poisoning of herbarium sheet.

Equanil (meprobamate) is a tranquilizer/sedative used to treat anxiety and tension. BHC, DDT, and Malathion are all pesticides used to kill insects and other pests. The question asks which is NOT a pesticide, making Equanil the correct answer.

DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is a synthetic insecticide used to control mosquitoes and other insect populations, not fungi, weeds, or pain.

Insecticides kill insects, their eggs and larvae without affecting the crop.

These are correct statements.