Heating an insecticide can give it new life. Microwaving the insecticide deltamethrin rearranges its crystal structure but doesn’t change its chemical composition. The rearrangement renews ...

A single carbon atom is revolutionizing pesticide design. Scientists reveal how adding a tiny methyl group to existing ...

Attune Agriculture, the leader in developing performance based agricultural products using hydrocolloid technology, announces that Entrapment insecticide has received EPA approval to expand the list ...

The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to ...

Researchers replace resistant gene with susceptible counterpart, opening the door to new methods that could fight malaria and reduce pesticide use Insecticides play a central role in efforts to ...

Very low concentrations of the popular organic insecticide Spinosad have profound effects on beneficial insect species, including vision loss and neurodegeneration, new research led by the University ...

Insecticides are chemicals that are used to kill or control insects. They are an important tool in modern agriculture and public health efforts to combat insect-borne diseases. One such insecticide ...

Swat. Spray. Repeat. This is the dance humans and mosquitoes have been doing for decades, ever since the rise of chemical insecticides following World War II. The pest control industry in the U.S. is ...

The dangers of neonicotinoid insecticides likely can't be watered down. That's the conclusion of a new study showing an insecticide made for commercial plant nurseries is harmful to a typical bee even ...

What could be the causes of this low genetic variability? Does it result from selective factors favoring a few genotypes or from stochastic factors randomly acting on all genotypes during the asexual ...