Primarily used to kill soil insects and termites, heptachlor has also been used more widely to kill cotton insects, grasshoppers, other crop pests, and malaria-carrying mosquitoes. (Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, 2019. The 12 initial POPs under the Stockholm Convention https://www.pops.int/TheConvention/ThePOPs/The12InitialPOPs/tabid/296/Default.aspx)
A pesticide applied to soils to kill termites, grasshoppers, corn rootworm, and other insect pests, aldrin can also kill birds, fish, and humans. (Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, 2019. The 12 initial POPs under the Stockholm Convention https://www.pops.int/TheConvention/ThePOPs/The12InitialPOPs/tabid/296/Default.aspx)
A herbicide for use, typically, in cereals to control annual grasses and many broad-leaved weeds. (http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/ppdb/en/Reports/409.htm)
