title: Insect repellants in urban settings.
abstract: Why kill bugs when you can just make them go away? Used primarily for biting-insect control, repellants may control household pests as well, once their potential is fully realized. Repellents may provide low-dose, specific and low-toxicity augmentations to conventional pesticides applied around the home and workplace.
authors.affiliation: United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Starkville, MS 39759, USA. cjpeterson@fs.fed.us
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peterson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003058:Cockroaches; D009033:Culicidae; D007300:Insect Control / Q000379:methods*; D007302:Insect Repellents; D007303:Insect Vectors; D007313:Insecta; D020049:Isoptera; D014504:Urban Health; D014507:Urbanization
chemical_list: D007302:Insect Repellents