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Pesticides designed to kill insects may be more likely to harm lobsters and crabs than fish because insects are more closely related to crabs and lobsters. Insects, crabs and lobsters are all arthropods, while fish are not.

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Mosquitoes and lobsters are both members of the phylum Arthropoda. Certain chemicals might harm both of them but not fish because they are in a different phylum.

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