Work sheet 1

Direction: Name the household pests correctly and identify the

chemicals that can eliminate them. Paste your answers on the
Manila paper.

CHOICES:

FLIES

RATS AND MICE

HOUSEFLIES

MOTHS

TERMITES

FLEAS

FOOD WEEVILS

MOSQUITOES
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KEY ANSWER

ANTS BEDBUG

Eradicated by using sodium fluoride Eradicated by using kerosene or DDT

(NaF) powder that dusted around sprayed or fumigation of HCN gas.
window sills in corners, and other
places.

FLEAS
COCKROACHES
Eradicated by using powdered
naphthalene and paradichlorobenzene Eradicated by using sodium fluoride,
spread in closets in closets and rooms borax in cocoa powder and pyrethrum.
tightly closed or kerosene sprayed
about the room.

HOUSEFLY
FOOD WEEVILS
Eradicated by DDT or a solution of 3
Burned teaspoonful of 40% formaldehyde (HCHO) in
a pint of milk or water, with a little syrup.
Flypapers are effective but unsightly in the
house.
 MOSQUITO MOTH

Eradicated by pouring kerosene in Eliminated by naphthalene ball placed

stagnant water around the house to between dresses or
destroy their breeding places. Also by paradichlorobenzene sprayed between
screening the house prevents its folds.
entrance into house.

TERMITES RATS AND MICE

Eliminated by soaking the ground with Effectively removed by common bait

crude orthodichlorobenzene solution. snap traps. Using poisons thallium,
Spray all woody parts with DDT. arsenic and other poisonous chemicals.