Insecticide: Misc

the estuarine, burrow-dwelling ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis is used as bait, but is sometimes attacked with insecticides because it damages Pacific oyster farms?
the Austrian industrialist Johan E. Zacherl made a fortune in the late 19th century by selling dried flower heads of Chrysanthenum cinerariifolum as insecticide?
some grass-endophyte symbioses produce loline alkaloids that are insecticidal and deterrent to various insects?
methoxychlor is used as an insecticide instead of the chemically related DDT because it apparently does not lead to bioaccumulation?

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