Any commercial pesticide will kill butterflies, but why would you want to? Butterflies are about one of the most benign insect in the world. Even in large numbers, the damage they do from feeding is usually pretty minimal.
If for some reason you need to spray for them, use nicotine tea. (take a pouch of the cheapest chewing tobacco you can find, boil two quarts of water, steep the tobacco in the water for an hour. When it cools, filter the water through a coffee filter, and pour into a garden sprayer. Keep in mind that nicotine tea will kill all insects, the beneficial and nuisance insects as well.)
A shoe. Seriously, however - pesticides and chemicals can kill butterflies, while frogs and some small mammals prey on butterflies for food.
A shoe. Seriously, however - pesticides and chemicals can kill butterflies, while frogs and some small mammals prey on butterflies for food.
The Schaus' Swallowtail is endangered because of habitat loss and because the pesticides used to kill mosquitoes are killing the butterflies.
Fungus does not kill pesticides, pesticides (fungicide to be exact) kill fungus.
butterflies nest
Too many kinds to list.
Pesticides are used in order to kill insects. If insects get on some types of vegetation, it can kill it.
By destruction of their habitat by man or the indiscriminate use of pesticides.
An example sentence for pesticides would be...I watched the farmer put pesticides on his plants so it would kill insectsOr something like that!Don't pesticides kill insects?
No, butterflies cannot kill you. They are harmless insects that do not pose any threat to humans.
Common pesticides used to kill insect pests include organophosphates, carbamates, pyrethroids, and neonicotinoids. These pesticides work by disrupting the nervous system of insects, leading to paralysis and eventual death. Organic options like neem oil and insecticidal soaps are also used as alternatives to synthetic pesticides.
Yes pesticides are some what bad because of what they do, they kill insects. They also go threw the ground and eventually end in water making pollution... Some of the insects that the pesticides kill are actually not going to hurt the plants that the pesticides are on in the first place. that means pesticides kill and pollute, does that sound very good. Pesticides are made from chemicals, bad ones at that and poison's in poison's out.