References

1. D.J. Ecobichon, Our changing perspectives on benefits and risks of pesticides: a historical overview, Neurotoxicology, 21 (2000) 211–218.
2. R.J. Gilliom, J.E. Barbash, C.G. Crawford, P.A. Hamilton, J.D. Martin, N. Nakagake, L.H. Nowell, J.C. Scott,
   P.E. Stackelberg, G.P. Thelin, D.M. Wolock, The Quality of Our Nation’s Waters—Pesticides in the Nation’s Streams and Ground Water, 1992–2001, Circular 1291, U.S. Geologcal Survey, 2006, p. 172.
3. N. Stamatis, D. Hela, I. Konstantinou, Pesticide inputs from the sewage treatment plant of Agrinio to River Acheloos, western Greece: occurrence and removal, Water Sci. Technol., 62 (2010) 1098–1105.
4. T. Osman, T. Cemile, The fate of pesticide in the environment, J. Boil Environ. Sci., 4 (2010) 29–38.
5. A. Elbert, H. Overbeck, K. Iwaya, S. Tsuboi, Imidacloprid, A Novel Systemic Nitromethylene Analogue Insecticide for Crop Protection, Brighton Crop Protection Conference Pests and Diseases – 1990, Vol. 1, British Crop Protection Council Thornton Heath UK, 1990, pp. 21–28.
6. P.N. Moza, K. Hustert, E. Feicht, A. Kettrup, Photolysis of imidacloprid in aqueous solution, Chemosphere, 36 (1998) 497–502.
7. M.Y. Liu, J.E. Casida, High affinity binding of [3H]imidacloprid in the insect acetylcholine receptor, Pestic. Biochem. Physiol., 46 (1993) 40–46.
8. R.S. Oliveira Jr., W.C. Koskinen, N.R. Werdin, P.Y. Yen, Sorption of imidacloprid and its metabolites on tropical soils, J. Environ. Sci. Health., Part B, 35 (2000) 39–49.
9. J. Rouchaud, F. Gustin, A. Wauters, Soil biodegradation and leaf transfer of insecticide imidacloprid applied in seed dressing in sugar beet crops, Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol., 53 (1994) 344–350.
10. W. Zheng, W. Liu, Kinetics and mechanism of the hydrolysis of imidacloprid, Pestic. Sci., 55 (1999) 482–485.
11. E.C. Bortoluzzi, D.S. Rheinheimer, C.S. Gonçalves, J.B.R. Pellegrini, A.M. Maroneze, M.H.S. Kurz, N.M. Bacar,
    R. Zanella, Investigation of the occurrence of pesticide residues in rural wells and surface water following application to tobacco, Quim. Nova, 30 (2007) 1872–1876.
12. K. Moriya, K. Shibuya, Y. Hattori, S.-i. Tsuboi, K. Shiokawa, S. Kagabu, 1-(6-Chloronicotinyl)-2-nitroimino-imidazolidines and related compounds as potential new insecticides, Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 56 (1992) 364–365.
13. D. Deepu, I.A. George, J.V. Peter, Toxicology of the newer neonicotinoid insecticides: imidacloprid poisoning in a human, Clin. Toxicol. (Phila), 45 (2007) 485–486.
14. J. Thyssen, L. Machemer, Chapter 9 – imidacloprid: Toxicology and Metabolism, I. Yamamoto, J.E. Casida, Eds., Nicotinoid Insecticides and the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor, Springer- Verlag, Tokyo, 1999, pp. 213–222.
15. I. Akça, C. Tuncer, A. Guler, I. Saruhan, Determination of lethal concentration of some insecticides to Honey Bee Apis mellifera (Apidae, Hymenoptera) with Laboratory Biossays, J. Anim. Vet. Adv., 8 (2009) 2380–2382.
16. K. Košutić, L. Furač, L. Sipos, B. Kunst, Removal of arsenic and pesticides from drinking water by nanofiltration membranes, Sep. Purif. Technol., 42 (2005) 137–144.
17. K.Y. Foo, B.H. Hameed, Detoxification of pesticide waste via activated carbon adsorption process, J. Hazard. Mater., 175 (2010) 1–11.
18. P. Chelme-Ayala, M. Gamal El-Din, D.W. Smith, Kinetics and mechanism of the degradation of two pesticides in aqueous solutions by ozonation, Chemosphere, 78 (2010) 557–562.
19. Q. Zhang, S.O. Pehkonen, Oxidation of diazinon by aqueous chlorine: kinetics, mechanisms, and product studies, J. Agric. Food Chem., 47 (1999) 1760–1766.
20. Q. Wang, A.T. Lemley, Oxidation of diazinon by anodic Fenton treatment, Water Res., 36 (2002) 3237–3244.
21. S. Malato, J. Blanco, A. Vidal, D. Alarcón, M.I. Maldonado, J. Cáceres, W. Gernjak, Applied studies in solar photocatalytic detoxification: an overview, J. Sol. Energy, 75 (2003) 329–336.
22. P. Saritha, C. Aparna, V. Himabindu, Y. Anjaneyulu, Comparison of various advanced oxidation processes for the degradation of 4-chloro-2 nitrophenol, J. Hazard. Mater., 149 (2007) 609–614.
23. H.M. Rajashekara Murthy, H.K. Manonmani, Aerobic degradation of technical hexachlorocyclohexane
    by a defined microbial consortium, J. Hazard. Mater., 149 (2007) 18–25.
24. A. Dąbrowski, Adsorption — from theory to practice, Adv. Colloid Interface Sci., 93 (2001) 135–224.
25. M. Rafatullah, O. Sulaiman, R. Hashim, A. Ahmad, Adsorption of methylene blue on low-cost adsorbents:
    a review, J. Hazard. Mater., 170 (2010) 70–80.
26. I. Ali, V.K. Gupta, Advances in water treatment by adsorption technology, Nat. Protoc., 1 (2006) 2661–2667.
27. S.A. Abdel-Gawad, A.M. Baraka, K.A. Omran, M.M. Mokhtar, Removal of some pesticides from the simulated waste water by electrocoagulation method using iron electrodes, Int. J. Electrochem. Sci., 7 (2012) 6654–6665.
28. I. Ghanem, M. Orfi, M. Shamma, Biodegradation of chlorpyrifos by Klebsiella sp. isolated from an activated sludge sample of waste water treatment plant in Damascus, Folia Microbiol. (Praha), 52 (2007) 423–427.
29. C. Segura, C. Zaror, H.D. Mansilla, M.A. Mondaca, Imidacloprid oxidation by photo-Fenton reaction, J. Hazard. Mater., 150 (2008) 679–686.
30. C. Zarora, C. Segura, H. Mansilla, M.A. Mondaca, P. Gonzalez, Kinetic study of imidacloprid removal by advanced oxidation based on photo-Fenton process, Environ. Technol., 31 (2010) 1411–1416.
31. M. Socías-Viciana, E. González-Pradas, M. Saifi, M.D. Ureña-Amate, F. Flores-Céspedes, M. Fernández-Pérez, The potential removal of imidacloprid from water by heat-treated kerolites, Pest. Manage. Sci., 59 (2003) 1162–1168.
32. M. Zahoor, M. Mahramanlioglu, Adsorption of imidacloprid on powdered activated carbon and magnetic activated carbon, Chem. Biochem. Eng. Q, 25 (2011) 55–63.
33. R. Karaman, M. Khamis, M. Quried, R. Halabieh, I. Makharzeh, A. Manassra, J. Abbadi, A. Qtait, S.A. Bufo,
    A. Nasser, S. Nir, Removal of diclofenac potassium from wastewater using claymicelle complex, Environ. Technol., 33 (2012) 1279–1287.
34. T. Polubesova, S. Nir, D. Zadaka, O. Rabinovitz, C. Serban, L. Groisman, B. Rubin, Water purification from organic pollutants by optimized micelle-clay systems, Environ. Sci. Technol., 39 (2005) 2343–2348.
35. S. Nir, I. Brook, Y. Anavi, M. Ryskin, J. Ben-Ari, R. Shveky-Huterer, H. Etkin, D. Zadaka-Amir, U. Shuali, Water purification from perchlorate by a micelle–clay complex: laboratory and pilot experiments, Appl. Clay Sci., 114 (2015) 151–156.
36. W.J. Zhang, Global pesticide use: profile, trend, cost/benefit and more, Proc. Int. Acad. Ecol. Environ. Sci., 8 (2018) 1–27.
37. A. Mandal, N. Singh, T.J. Purakayastha, Characterization of pesticide sorption behaviour of slow pyrolysis biochars as low cost adsorbent for atrazine and imidacloprid removal, Sci. Total Environ., 577 (2017) 376–385.
38. F.Z. Choumane, B. Benguella, Removal of acetamiprid from aqueous solutions with low-cost sorbents, Desal. Water Treat., 57 (2014) 419–430.
39. S.G. Mohammad, S.M. Ahmed, Adsorptive removal of acetamiprid pesticide from aqueous solution using environmentally friendly natural and agricultural wastes, Desal. Water Treat., 145 (2019) 280–290.
40. S.G. Mohammad, S.M. Ahmed, A. El-Galil E. Amr, A.H. Kamel, Porous activated carbon from lignocellulosic agricultural waste for the removal of acetampirid pesticide from aqueous solutions, Molecules, 25 (2020) 2339, doi: 10.3390/ molecules25102339.
41. M. Qurie, M. Khamis, L. Scrano, S.A. Bufo, G. Mecca, R. Karaman, Removal of two NSAIDs: naproxen and diclofenac and a heavy metal Cr(VI) by advanced membranes technology, Case Stud. J., 4 (2015) 51–63.
42. D. Zadaka, Y.G. Mishael, T. Polubesova, C. Serban, S. Nir, Modified silicates and porous glass as adsorbents for removal of organic pollutants from water and comparison with activated carbons, Appl. Clay Sci., 36 (2007) 174–181.
43. H. Wamhoff, V. Schneider, Photodegradation of imidacloprid, J. Agric. Food Chem., 47 (1999) 1730–1734.
44. W. Liu, W. Zheng, J. Gan, Competitive sorption between imidacloprid and imidacloprid-urea on soil clay minerals and humic acids, J. Agric. Food Chem., 5 (2002) 6823–6827.
45. J. Bacey, Environmental Fate of Imidacloprid, California Environmental Monitoring and Pest Management Branch, Department of Pesticide Regulation, Sacramento, CA, 2000.
46. O. Klein, W. Karl, Methylene [14C] Imidacloprid: Metabolism Part of the General Metabolism Study in the Rat, Unpublished Report No. PF 3316, Submitted to WHO by Bayer AG, Mannheim, Germany, INCHEM Toxicological Evaluations: Imidacloprid, World Health Organization, International Programme on Chemical Safety, 1990.