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Uncommon card · Nature
Insecticide, an Uncommon card
Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects. They include ovicides and larvicides used against insect eggs and larvae, respectively.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 156
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 61,000
Power 156 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Insecticide quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Insecticide card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Acaricides, which kill mites and ticks, are not strictly ______, but are usually classified together with insecticides.
Answer
insecticides. Acaricides, which kill mites and ticks, are not strictly insecticides, but are usually classified together with insecticides. From the Insecticide article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of Mumbai Metro stations. List of Mumbai Metro stations 88 · Kingdom 78 · Insecticide 75 · European mantis 72 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The major use of insecticides is in agriculture, but they are also used in home and garden settings, industrial buildings, for vector control, and control of insect parasites of animals and humans.
- Acaricides, which kill mites and ticks, are not strictly insecticides, but are usually classified together with insecticides.
- Some insecticides are effective against other non-insect arthropods as well, such as scorpions, spiders, etc. Insecticides are distinct from insect repellents, which repel but do not kill.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Insecticide article was read about 61,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Insecticide
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Insecticide (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Photographed by User:Bullenwächter, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
