How to Use larvicide in a Sentence

larvicide

noun
  • Rawashdeh knew from her readings that essential oils could act as a larvicide.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
  • Mosquito larvicide is easy to use and can be purchased at most home improvement stores.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Officials said the larvicide doesn’t harm other insects or wildlife.
    — Kris Maher, WSJ, 16 June 2019
  • Many growers target the egg hatch to apply ovicide/larvicides for long-lasting effect.
    — OregonLive.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Local officials could add larvicide to the water, to kill any mosquito eggs.
    — Susan Demar Lafferty, Daily Southtown, 21 July 2017
  • An adulticide is used when ground spraying takes place, and the larvicide is used in standing water, where mosquitoes can breed.
    — Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The other drawback is the larvicide only affects larvae, or the eggs of mosquitoes.
    — Caitlin Randle, Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 June 2017
  • Treating standing water that cannot be emptied, such as retention ponds or drainage ditches, with a mosquito larvicide.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The traps contain larvicides that destroy any eggs mosquito may lay, thus reducing their populations.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
  • There are no plans at this point to start spraying for mosquitoes or to use larvicides to stop them from breeding in Berrien County, Conrad said.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Resources are also needed to disseminate the larvicide and to locate the water bodies that host the mosquito eggs and larvae.
    — Andy Hardy, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2017
  • After two pools of standing water tested positive for West Nile virus in the city, Frisco will begin treating the area with larvicide.
    — Dallas News, 5 July 2019
  • Public health authorities need to be able to locate and map these water bodies so they can be treated using a larvicide like DDT.
    — Andy Hardy, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2017
  • When Zika first spread in 2015, health workers distributed larvicides that killed the mosquitoes that spread the disease.
    — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • That means draining breeding sites, spraying larvicides (which are biological toxins and don’t cause resistance) on water that can’t be drained and moving homes out of swampy areas.
    — Stephanie Nolen Malin Fezehai, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Staff will be looking for areas of standing water, applying larvicide and making sure swimming pools are operating properly.
    — USA TODAY, 17 July 2019
  • Stir ornamental pools and water gardens frequently, stock them with mosquito-eating fish or provide constant water movement, like a bubbler. Maintain swimming pools and drain pools that are not being used or treat them with larvicide.
    — Kansascity, kansascity.com, 24 May 2017
  • Now, the government is trying to chemically halt mosquito breeding by fumigating streets and lacing water tanks with larvicide.
    — National Geographic, 25 Feb. 2016
  • Immature animals get eaten far more often than adults, and this makes larvicide (or infanticide) the most common form of cannibalism in the animal kingdom.
    — Bill Schutt, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Some regions take steps to control the mosquito population by removing places where mosquitoes lay eggs, killing eggs with larvicides and killing the adult population with adulticides.
    — Dr. Adiba Matin, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Lake County officials are also deploying larvicides and sprays, as well as gambusia minnows, which eat mosquito larvae, Scott said.
    — Amelia Cheatham, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 July 2017
  • Standing water that is being collected purposefully can also be taken out-of-use as a mosquito breeding site by covering the container with a net or lid or by applying larvicide.
    — Guest, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2019
  • Officials have asked residents to empty standing water on their properties, and to let pest specialists spray for mosquitoes inside homes and gardens and add larvicide to containers that might hold water.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 29 July 2016
  • Instead, the city focuses on eliminating mosquito habitat disruption — by draining stagnant water pools — and larvicide rather than spraying.
    — Dallas News, 5 July 2019
  • The larvicide being used is not harmful to people, pets, bees, aquatic habitats or environmentally sensitive areas, county officials say.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • For low-income pregnant women, the State Health Department is distributing kits with repellent, condoms and larvicide tablets to treat standing water.
    — Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 30 May 2016
  • In areas where positive samples are taken, the city will increase monitoring and treatment with larvicide or adulticide to reduce the mosquito population.
    — Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2020
  • County workers have started applying a larvicide in the form of granules — similar in appearance to Grape Nuts cereal — in areas with standing water, such as swamps, ditches and ponds.
    — Martin E. Comas, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The division began ramping up efforts Thursday, bringing in additional staff, and is working through the weekend, spraying the floodwater with larvicide during the day and adulticide at night.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2023
  • In late spring, the city starts bombing breeding grounds with larvicide — ground-up corncobs saturated with naturally occurring soil bacteria that are deadly to baby mosquitoes but generally harmless to other life.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023

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