Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Endosulfan is safe to bees and beneficial insects

Endosulfan exhibits low toxicity to bees and beneficial insects http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp41-c4.pdf ).
Endosulfan has relatively low toxicity to many species of beneficial insects, mites and spiders. These insects are beneficial in the sense that they prey upon pests which damage crops. Hence it is important that the insecticide used to kill pests is not unsafe to these beneficial insects. Other chemicals, necessarily substituted for endosulfan, would kill beneficial insects leading to population explosions of damaging pests which in turn would require more frequent sprays of harsher chemicals than if endosulfan had been used in the first place.

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  1. The National Bureau for Agriculturally Important Insects of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research has developed special genotypes of predators and parasites with tolerance for the doses at which Endosulfan is used.

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