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Insecticides

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Images from the collections

Images about Insecticides

45 images from works
  • Lavandula augustifolia (Lavender)
  • Genuine Dalmatian insect powder for the destruction of insects : quite harmless to animal life but effectually destroys every tribe of insect.
  • Your guide to protecting your pet against fleas and ticks : Frontline Spot On : protection you both can trust / Merial Animal Health Ltd.
  • Guidance on the safe use of phosphate insecticides in China. Colour lithographs, 1963.
  • Surface of a mint leaf
  • Winter sheep dipping : Facts! Facts!! Facts!!! : useful to farmers in Scotland and the north of England... / Quibell Brothers.
  • Poultry mites : how to control them / [prepared by the Entomology Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service]
  • Mentha x piperita (Peppermint)
  • Guidance on the safe use of phosphate insecticides in China. Colour lithographs, 1963.
  • Guidance on the safe use of phosphate insecticides in China. Colour lithographs, 1963.
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Works from the collections

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    • Online

    A spray can of Hexo Globol insecticide in use against pests. Colour lithograph, 1954.

    | Date: [1954] | Reference: 664024i
    • Books

    Research in the development of cyanogas calcium cyanide.

    American Cyanamid Company. | Date: [1924-1926?]
    • Books

    Expert Committee on Insecticides : sixth report.

    World Health Organization. Expert Committee on Insecticides. | Date: 1956
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Fly and maggot oil : poison : a most effective preparation.

    | Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]
    • Books

    What should you know about head lice? : there's a simple answer with Full Marks lotion / Consumer Products Division, Napp Laboratories Ltd.

    Napp Laboratories. Consumer Products Division. | Date: 1993
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Related topics

Insect Control
Mosquito Control
Pest Control
Insect pests
Africa
Trypanosomiasis, African
Herb
Anti-Infective Agents, Local
Tsetse Flies
Insecticide Resistance

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