Because of this, it has been used as a safe microbial insecticide for over 50 years to control pest caterpillars. Bt insecticides are popular with organic farmers because they are considered ...

Products containing this fungus, beauveria bassiana, are now available in U.S. markets ... The average person doesn’t appreciate how challenging it is to control bedbugs and will use supermarket ...

Rachel Carson predicted such resistance in her groundbreaking book Silent Spring, published soon after the chemical insecticide glory days of the 1950s. And the problem is getting worse.

One of the main discoveries of a new study is the identification of new variants in genes associated with insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes, the primary vectors of malaria in West ...

Our analysis showed that all classes of pesticides threaten soil invertebrates. The classes most often associated with harm (in more than 70% of cases reviewed) are organophosphate, neonicotinoid, ...

They also include most of the extremely dangerous pyrethroid insecticides that are linked to autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and are highly toxic to pollinators and fish. “The EPA’s ...

Systemic insecticides, molluscicides and nematicides spread through the vascular system of the plants and kill pests that are feeding on the plants.