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The Mode of Action of DDT

1955; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-0348-6997-3_3

V. B. Wigglesworth,

Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity

ZusammenfassungDDT is, first and foremost, a contact insecticide. Its vapour pressure is so low that a fumigant action does not come into consideration. It can be absorbed from the alimentary canal after ingestion with the food so that it may on occasion act as a stomach poison. But its most striking characteristic is the case with which it enters the arthropod body through the integument.