What is the difference between a pesticide and an herbicide?
“Pesticide” means, but is not limited to, any substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any insect, rodent, nematode, snail, slug, fungus, weed, and any other form of plant or animal life or virus, except virus or fungus on or in living man or other animal, which is normally considered to be a pest or which the director may declare to be a pest, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant, and any spray adjuvant pursuant to Title 22, Chapter 24, Idaho Code, Noxious Weeds Law. An herbicide is a substance used to destroy plants, especially weeds.
