Effects on nontarget species[edit]
Some insecticides kill or harm other creatures in addition to those they are intended to kill. For example, birds may be poisoned when they eat food that was recently sprayed with insecticides or when they mistake an insecticide granule on the ground for food and eat it.[7]
Sprayed insecticide may drift from the area to which it is applied and into wildlife areas, especially when it is sprayed aerially.[7