Repellent - a pesticide that keeps or drives insects or other pests away from the plant, animal or treated surface. Rodenticides - used to kill rats, mice, and other rodent pests. Insecticides - materials used to control insects. Some insecticides kill both by touch and by ingestion. Insecticides vary in the numbers of different kinds of insects they kill.
Some insecticides kill only a few kinds of insects.
These insecticides are beneficial when you wish to kill only one insect pest and not kill beneficial insects in the area. Other insecticides are a general purpose or wide range killers. No broad spectrum kills all insects. Each broad spectrum insecticide varies on the kinds and numbers of insects it controls. Miticides or Acaricides - substances used to control mites and sometimes ticks and spiders.