What are the types of pesticides?

1. bactericide: bactericide, also known as biocide, bactericide and microbicide, usually refers to chemical agents that can effectively control or kill microorganisms-bacteria, fungi and algae in water system. Internationally, it is usually regarded as the general name of drugs for preventing and treating various pathogenic microorganisms.

2. Acaricide: Acaricide. The chemicals used to control phytophagous mites are called acaricides. Most acaricides used in the early days were sulfur and inorganic sulfur preparations.

3. Nematode: An insecticide used to control harmful nematodes. Nematodes belong to the class Nematoda. They are so small that they can be observed under a microscope. There are about 3000 species of nematodes harmful to plants, most of which live in soil and some are parasitic in plants.

4. Rodenticide: rodenticide in a narrow sense only refers to chemical agents with toxic effects, while rodenticide in a broad sense also includes fumigants that can kill rodents, rodenticides that prevent rodents from damaging articles, sterile agents that make rodents lose their reproductive ability, synergists that can improve the rodent control efficiency of other chemical agents, and so on.

5. Herbicide: refers to the agent that can completely or selectively kill weeds, also known as herbicide, which is a substance used to eliminate or inhibit plant growth. Among them, sodium chlorate, borax, arsenate and trichloroacetic acid have lethal effects on any plant, and their effects are affected by herbicides, plants and environmental conditions.

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