PESTICIDE INFORMATION COLLIER PEST CONTROL NAPLES FORT MYERS FLORIDA

PESTICIDE INFORMATION

1. Pesticides are most commonly thought of as chemicals substances used to kill, control, or manage pest populations.  Not all pesticides are made from organophosphate petroleum based materials; some are made from botanicals, pyrethroids, inorganics, bacteria, fungus, or a man made synthetic substance.
2. Pesticides are usually made up of 2 types of materials; active ingredients and inert ingredients.  Active ingredients are the chemicals in the product that are responsible for the pesticidal effect on the pest.  Inert ingredients are the liquid or solid materials added to the active ingredient to prepare a pesticide formulation.  This is the material that either carries the active ingredient or distributes the active ingredient to its target location.  Inert ingredients have no or insignificant pesticidal activity against the pest.
3. There are 2 groupings of pesticide formulations; liquid and dry.  Within the liquid formulations are grouped in the concentrates are; Emulsifiable concentrates, Solutions, Flowables, Flowable Microencapsulation's and Suspension concentrates.  Also in liquids are ready to use sprays and fumigants.  Grouped with dry formulations are; Wettable Powders, Soluble Powders, Baits, Granules, Resin Strips, Pellets and Tablets, and Fumigants Tablets.
4. Insect Growth Regulators (IGR) are a group of compounds which can disrupt a number of normal processes in the growth and development of insects.  They generally have very little toxicity to mammals because they act by disrupting processes which are specific to insects and closely related to arthropods.  By stopping the growth processes and the maturing to an adult of insects, the populations of that problem pest will be reduced and controlled without the aid of chemical insecticides.
5. Containers for liquid pesticide concentrates are not really empty pesticide containers until they have been properly rinsed.  Only then can they legally be disposed of according to label directions.  To properly empty and rinse a liquid pesticide container you must let the container drain or drip out for at least 30 seconds, then fill the container 1/4^th full of water.  Replace the cap on the container and rotate or shake the container to rinse all sides.  Drain the water out of the container into a spray tank for disposal.  The empty pesticide container must be rinsed 3 times before properly disposing.

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