Crossword-Solution: ROTENONE
We have 5 clues for the answer “ROTENONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Compound used to treat chiggers and scabies | 1 answer |
| Insecticide substance | 1 answer |
| Organic insecticide | 1 answer |
| white odourless crystalline substance extracted from the roots of derris: a powerful insecticide | 1 answer |
| insecticide | 23 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ROTENONE (5)
For example, rotenone, an insecticide derived from a tropical root called derris, is as poisonous to humans as organophosphate chemical pesticides.
But once I dusted an entire raised bed of beetle-threatened bush bean seedlings with powdered rotenone late in the afternoon.
Unexpectedly, it rained rather hard that evening and still-active rotenone was washed off the leaves and deeply into the soil.
Mixing foliar feed solutions with a little spreader/sticker, Safer's Soap, or, if bugs are also a problem, with a liquid organic insecticide like Red Arrow (a pyrethrum-rotenone mix), eliminates surface tension and allows the fertilizer to have an effect on brassicas.
Rotenone, which, I believe, is one of your main insecticides in nut culture, is fairly effective on Japanese beetles.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1981–2006).