Pesticides are of various chemical nature which on being applied to plants nuture them by warding of pests. Pesticides, when applied to plants, on excess irrigation, they percolate down the soil thus polluting the depleting reservoire of groundwater.
Pesticides are composed of various chemicals like cadmium, Mercury which enter the human body via the food chain which has its dependence on groundwater. Chemicals like cadmium cause death on consumption.
Pesticides not only harm the insects and pests but also the local fauna like snakes and earthworms which are natural pesticides and decomposers. Snakes kill the rats living in the farm.
when they are sprayed on fruits and vegetables to keep insects away that may eat them the pesticides are there when the humans consume them as well. Since pesticides are poisonous to more than just insects it harms the people who eat the food, while not usually in a fatal way over time the continued consumption of these poisons will cause health problems. YOU SUCK LOOSERS :D hah hah :]
That is a good question! pesticides are supposed to be bad for the human body, unless and until proved otherwise. Pesticides kill the pests. Pests belong to animal kingdom. If pesticides kill, they are poisons. They are likely to hurt you. You have so many pesticides. Every year, you have the new ones coming to the market. There safety profile is unknown, specially the long term effects of the poisons. No doubt, you can invent the pesticides, which are safe to human being. But the process will be too expensive and cumbersome. Pesticides manufacturers are less likely to fallow the same.
pesticides cause birth defects, neurological damage, and deadly cancers like brain cancer or leukemia
cause health risks
leads to cancer sometimes.....
The advantages of Arsenic are its uses in many industries. It is used in the making of pesticides and wood preservative. It is also used in gold mining. Arsenic is poisonous and can kill a person, this is one of the main disadvantages of it.
Some evironmental concerns from gathering apples are using pesticides and machinary that is harmful to the emvironment.
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You can be killing millions of living things, no matter where you spray the pesticide there are several things that die. Certain other insects are on a plant when you apply a pesticide, and that could kill them and the bad insect. When it rains, the pesticides are carried away with the rain, going to the ocean, polluting the ocean and also killing coral. THere are still millions of other disadvantages of using pesticides.
All you can do is to stop using pesticides or restrict their use..
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Pesticides remain on fruits and are passed on to anyone who eats the fruits.
what reason might a farmer have for using bioligical control instead of chemical pesticides
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it is very harmful to others
pesticides poison pests, but they can also poison other living organisms, or those who eat poisoned organism etc. also, farmers who don't use pesticides can sell their produce for more money as it is organic.
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To keep the soil usable after spraying pesticides on it, crop rotation is used.
No. Pheromones are attractants (often sexual) that bring pests to a trap where they are killed using pesticides or mechanically.
The greatest advantage of pesticides is their ability to eliminate pests. However, pesticides also carry the risk of poisoning beneficial plants and animals. Some forms of pesticides even directly damage the environment.