PLANT BOARD 
May 1943 
E-597 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT 0? AGRICULTURE 
A GP I C ULTU RAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION 
BBREATJ OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
INSECTICIDAL USES OF NICOTINE AND TOBACCO 
A condensed Summary of the Literature, 1690-1934 
By N, E, Mclndoo, Division" of Insecticide Investigations 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Introduction ------------------------- 2 
History of insectieidal uses of tobacco and nicotine ----- - 2 
I, Classes of insecticides --------------- 2 
Contact insecticides --------------- 3 
Fumigants- -------------------- 3 
Stomach poisons- ----------------- 4 
II, Repellents, or deterrents -------------- 4 
III, Kinds of nicotine preparations- ----------- 4 
Nicotine compounds ---------------- 4 
Proprietary nicotine compounds ---------- 4 
Other nicotine preparations- ----------- 5 
IV, How nicotine kills insects- ------------- 5 
V # Kinds of animals against which nicotine was effective 6 
Insects, mites, and ticks controlled by nicotine ------- 6 
I, Homoptera ---------------------- 6 
Plant lice, or aphids (Aphiidae) --------- 6 
Jumping plant lice (Psyllidae) ---------- 10 
Leafhcppers (Cicadellidae) ------------ 11 
Mealybugs, scale insects, and coccids (Coccidae) - 11 
Species belonging to other families of Honoptf:ra - 12 
II, Heteroptera --------------------- 12 
Leaf bug$ or capsids (Miridae) ---------- 12 
Lacebugs, or tingitids ( Tingitidae )- - -- -- -- 13 
Chinch' bug and other lygaeids (Lygaeidae)- - - - - 13 
Squash bug and other coreids (Coreidae)- ----- 13 
Pentatomid bugs (Fentatcmidae) and other Heteroptera 13 
III, Thysanoptera, or thrips --------------- 13 
IT, Diptcra » - - 14 
V, ' Hymenoptera --------------------- 14 
VI, Coleoptera- --------------------- 14 
VII, Lepidoptera --------------------- 14 
VIII, Acarina ----------------------- 15 
IX, External parasites on animals and man -------- 16 
