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[edit] Focus on environmental effects

"Scare quotes" and strawmen do not an argument make. Sections like this make the entire encyclopedia look amateurish.

The article does not represent insecticides in an encyclopedic fashion. The article's main section is Environmental effects, with no mention of history, developement or worldwide usage. There are most definately well documented adverse effects of insecticides and these should be included. However, the article is not a forum to discuss only why restricting DTT use to vector control has reduced selection of resistant insects. The article should be a broad and NPOV review of insecticides in general. Goldfinger820 05:51, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. It needs a re-write. Bihal 22:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Totally agreed. This article also contains a great degree of negative, non-neutral phrases, e.g. opponents to environmentalism; this accusation, while sensational... More objective phrases should be used.

Doesn't really explain how insecticides work, except to say that they work on the nervous system.

kramsay 24 May 2006

I did not realize that DDT caused euphoria...where can I get some? The article is reasonably well done considering one of the biggest concerns regarding insecticides is environmental but there is insufficient information on the mechanistic function of insecticides to make the extensiveness of the environmental discussion reasonable.

4 Oct 2006

[edit] Merge

Can someone who edits this article please merge articles like ovicide and larvicide either here or into Types of insecticide if need be? Richard001 04:03, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Went ahead with ovicide, but larvicide is a pretty respectable stub, so I left it alone. Someone else can do it if they want though. Removing merge tag. delldot talk 20:32, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ovicide

Actually, this could also refer to the killing of eggs by animals, a form of infanticide. Perhaps a disambiguation would be better for this? Richard001 (talk) 21:23, 23 March 2008 (UTC)