Benefits

Pyrethroid pesticides provide a wide range of benefits to society by offering consumers and professionals a proven way to control a broad spectrum of harmful pests. They are highly effective in controlling insects of economic and public health significance in agriculture, mosquito control, and structural and residential pest control.

Products containing pyrethroids help control insects that may spread such harmful diseases as West Nile Virus and Lyme disease. They are also invaluable in protecting homes from termites, and dozens of farm crops from insect infestations.

Pyrethroid pesticides have emerged as some of the most trusted, reliable and effective tools for combating pests.

Benefits Summary Fact Sheet

Benefits to Public Health

Pyrethroid pesticides play a vital role around the world in protecting humans from pests that may carry infectious diseases, including ticks that spread Lyme disease and mosquitoes that can carry West Nile Virus.

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    Pyrethroids control such dangerous or problematic insects as cockroaches, mosquitoes, ants, spiders, bedbugs, fleas, ticks, earwigs, and other household pests.

    Pyrethroids reduce the risk of insect bites and help control insects that may spread disease around the home and in places where people congregate, such as:

    Schools	Airplanes
    Restaurants	Trains
    Hospitals	Buses
    Nursing Homes	Taxis
    Hotels	Movie theaters
    Libraries	Government buildings
    Parks	Businesses
    Courthouses	Gyms

Benefits to Homes and Buildings

Pyrethroids are an important tool for repelling wood destroying insects, such as termites and carpenter ants that can destroy homes and other buildings.

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    Pyrethroid products are used in two primary ways to protect homes and buildings from wood destroying insects:
    1. During pre-construction, pyrethroid-based products can be applied to the soil before the concrete slab is poured. This application creates a barrier that repels termites from attacking a new home.
    2. Pyrethroid treatments are also used to exterminate termites that have already infested existing homes.

Benefits to Farms & Food Production

Pyrethroids have been used since the 1980’s and represent a valuable tool for protecting more than 120 crops that provide food and fiber to millions of Americans and the world.

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    Pyrethroids provide high value to US and global food production to allow a stable, affordable food supply.

    Some of the crops on which pyrethroids can be used include:

    Alfalfa	Lettuce	Sorghum
    Almonds	Onions	Soybeans
    Apples	Oranges	Strawberries
    Broccoli	Peaches	Sunflowers
    Cherries	Peanuts	Tobacco
    Corn (field)	Pears	Tomatoes
    Corn (sweet)	Peppers	Walnuts
    Cotton	Pistachios	Wheat
    Grapefruit	Potatoes
    Grapes	Rice