1. Safe Agricultural Pesticides By: Mia Ortega And Erica Winfield

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3. What are Pesticides? The EPA defines pesticides as “any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest.” A pesticide may be a chemical substance or biological agent. A biological agent is like a virus or bacteria. It is used against pests including insects, plant pathogens, weeds,birds, mammals, fish, and nematodes(roundworms). Pesticides are usually poisonous to humans.

5. What is Environmentally Safe? Environmentally safe means using the right pest control products. There are thousands of safe pests control products in the world, but sometimes they are advertised or do not work. The majority of these products are not safe. Some safe pest control are organic, humane trapping, all natural and glue traps. Pest control is sometimes used in aerosol cans, which is harmful to the environment.