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- n a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites
- Despite assurances that the insecticide poses no threat to humans, many people object to the state's program of spraying malathion from helicopters over a 400-sq.
- Those insecticides not dependent on the compound, like malathion, are also construct ed of toxic molecules.
- Meanwhile, the insecticide barrage had been augmented by dieldrin, parathion, heptachlor, malathion and other fearful compounds many times stronger than DDT, all of which the .