Consequences of Insecticide Use on Nontarget Organisms
- 1 January 1967
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Entomology
- Vol. 12 (1) , 257-286
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.en.12.010167.001353
Abstract
This review discusses the contamination of water, soils, and air with chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides. The adverse effects of insecticide residues on plants, soil-inhabiting invertebrates, terrestrial insects, spider mites, estuarine organisms, fish, birds, wild and domestic mammals, and humans are considered.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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