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13 unusual facts about DDT


Bats of the United States

The cause of this decline is unknown but the pesticide DDT is often listed as a primary cause.

Dynamic debugging technique

The name is a pun on the insecticide (i.e. bug-killer) DDT.

Eufriesea

At least one of its species, Eufriesea purpurata from Brazil, has been shown to selectively collect large quantities of the insecticide DDT without any apparent adverse effects.

Evolutionary pressure

DDT is no longer effective in controlling mosquitoes that transmit malaria in some places, a fact that contributed to a resurgence of the disease.

Geography of Uzbekistan

shrinkage of the Aral Sea is resulting in growing concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders; increasing soil salination; soil contamination from agricultural chemicals, including DDT

Henry I. Miller

He is a strong proponent of DDT, arguing that its use should be revived in the United States to control mosquitoes.

Junichi Sasai

Unlike the Americans, who treated their airbases with DDT, the Japanese had no similar solution.

Riders of the Whistling Pines

Reporting it to the forest service and discovering that his shot could not have killed Carter, he is hired to run a program of aerial spraying of DDT to kill the moth larva before the forest is destroyed.

Teenage Lobotomy

Lyrics are about a teenager who had a lobotomy because of the brain damage caused by overexposure to DDT.

The Pique Poquette of Paris

This prompts Pierre to laugh uncontrollably, and Deux-Deux blasts him with DDT and subdues him.

Three Men, a Woman and a Baby

Uncle Albert points out that would make his initials DDT, but Del and Raquel are unconcerned, with Del remarking that "there'll be no flies on him."

Tortricidae

Control has required the use of the harshest available insecticides - historically lead arsenate and DDT were used for control.

Wildlife of Israel

Another distinguished cause of endangerment is the past use of DDT and other chemicals which has hurt all of the birds of prey populations as well as the bat population (mainly Microchiroptera) which were also killed by human made lighting in the caves due to the suspicion that fruit-eating bats were harming local crops.


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Art Cooley

In the spring of 1966, Cooley was among the BTNRC activists who testified in favor of a class action lawsuit filed by Patchogue attorney Victor Yannacone against the Suffolk County Mosquito Control Commission, seeking to force the commission to stop using the insecticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) in the local salt marshes.

The group won a temporary injunction from the New York Supreme Court in August 1966 banning the county's use of DDT, and the Mosquito Commission switched to using the organophosphate Abate (temefos) instead.

Carmans River

In 1967 Art Cooley, Bellport, New York school teacher, noting a decline in the osprey population on the river was one of the founders of the Environmental Defense Fund which was to lead the fight to ban DDT.

Chikara Season Five

A random draw would see Delirious selected as Wicked’s partner and the two would make their way to the semi-finals with wins over Crossbones and Rorschach plus Cheech and Cloudy in the first two rounds before beating Team DDT (KUDO and Kyohei Mikami).

Clarence United

In 2003, the ground was featured in the media on ABC Stateline, when local residents suggested that DDTs, and other Organochlorides had been used to control vermin and mosquitoes when the site was a rubbish dump, and that these chemicals were responsible for higher than usual rates of diseases such as cancer in the local area.

Dynamic debugging technique

These eight jobs were all given unique names, and the usual name for the original and top-most DDT was "HACTRN" ("hack-tran"); thus Guy L. Steele's famous filk poem parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," The HACTRN.

Gorbunov Palace of Culture

Among the bands that have played concerts at Gorbunov Palace are Jethro Tull, Einstürzende Neubauten, Diamanda Galas, Nightwish, Therion, Lacrimosa, DDT, Boris Grebenshchikov, Krematorij and others, "Nashestvie" and "Uchites plavat" festivals.

Kengo Mashimo

2007 has also seen Mashimo start an interpromotional rivalry with BJW heavyweight Daisuke Sekimoto, the two fighting on nearly every Indy Summit show, culmulating in a BJW Tag Team title match with Mashimo teaming with DDT star HARASHIMA in a 30 minute draw against champions Sekimoto and Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX's Yoshihito Sasaki.

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor domain

Human genes encoding proteins that contain this domain include DDT and MIF.

Matt Stephens

DDT and the ICONIX modeling process have been adopted in a variety of large-scale software projects e.g. the image processing software in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).

In Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML, Stephens outlines an extension to the ICONIX object modeling process which he and co-author Doug Rosenberg termed Design Driven Testing (DDT), a deliberate reversal of Test Driven Development (TDD), a core tenet of XP.

Organochloride

Rachel Carson brought the issue of DDT pesticide toxicity to public awareness with her 1962 book Silent Spring.

Particle-induced X-ray emission

In order to get a meaningful sulfur signal from the analysis, the buffer should not contain sulfur (i.e. no BES, DDT, HEPES, MES, MOPSO or PIPES compounds).

Roger Bate

Bate is on the board of Africa Fighting Malaria, a group promoting the use of DDT to control malaria.

Sulphur Bank Mine

The California Department of Fish and Game's biologist, Larry Week was testing fish samples in 1976 for DDD, a close relative of DDT the pesticide, and discovered high levels of mercury in fish tissue.

Wentworth Park, Tasmania

In 2003, the ground was featured in the media on ABC Stateline, when local residents suggested that DDTs, and other Organochlorides had been used to control vermin and mosquitoes when the site was a rubbish dump, and that these chemicals were responsible for higher than usual rates of diseases such as cancer in the area.