Pesticides Safe Use of Pesticides Farmers use pesticides to keep bugs, mice and other pests from destroying their crops. Pesticides were used to help grow those fruits and vegetables, and traces of the pesticides may be inside or on the skin. Pesticides were in the flea bath. Pesticides were in both those cans.
Pesticides are chemicals that kill pests.
People use them to kill harmful insects, weeds, and animals like mice and rats. Thanks to pesticides, some insect-related diseases like malaria have been nearly wiped out and crops have been saved from destruction. Thanks to pesticides, America has become a land of agricultural plenty. But pesticides, because they are poisons, can also be dangerous. Particles of sprayed pesticides can float into the air.