Understanding The World Of Insecticide For Successful Vegetable Production

I hope you aren't for organic farming? If you are, then you might visit another articles of ours for this article won't be for your taste. INSECTICIDES are agrochemicals formulated to fight all types of insect pest attacking your crops. I know the word insect pest means only insect to some people! No! It could also refers to other arthropods (class to which insect belongs). There are other insect pests too such as spider family (arachnids), caterpillar, thrips, and worms. So next time you see an insecticide bottle, you might want to ask the question: to control what or which particular arthropod? Generally, vegetables are mostly being attacked by insect and arachnids, therefore you would often see on the label of the - Insecticide and acaricides respectively. Now that you know what insecticide (insecticide & acaricide) is, you might need to understand the following terminologies: 1. Broad-spectrum insecticide/acaricide: These are insecticide that would kill or prevent all types of insects/arachnids attacking your crops. By the way even beneficiary insects like bees! 2. Narrow spectrum insecticide/acaricide: These are insecticide formulated to be selective in killing some insects and leaving others. Being narrowed, they are very powerful against the selective insects/arachnids. I would mostly suggest the use of this. You are almost an expert in insecticide identification yourselves but wait a minute before you think you are done. These two types of insecticide mentioned above can have two different modes of action. 1. Systemic insecticide/acaricide: The insecticide with systemic mode of action means that it would go deep into the plant system with a residual... 2 contact insecticide.