Jangchub wrote:

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PESTICIDES

Pesticides are a broad class of chemicals and biological agents that
are specifically designed and applied to kill a pest. Specific types
of pesticides target specific types of pests: insecticides kill
insects, fungicides kill fungi and bacteria, herbicides kill weeds and
other unwanted plant vegetation, molluscacides kill mollusks,
acaricides kill spiders, and so on. Pesticide use dates back to
ancient times.

There is actually more to what a pesticide is. The EPA definition is "A
pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for
preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest."

"Off" mosquito repellent is a pesticide. Pheromones used as an
attractant for insect traps are also classified as a pesticide. More
common sense is being used by the state officials though, but used to,
if a customer had ants gathering on a hummingbird feeder and I applied
vasaline to the support line to keep the ants off I had to list the
vasaline as pesticide.

Lar