(Beyond Pesticides, August 2, 2023) A study published in Pest Management Science finds resistance to insecticides like pyrethroids are challenging attempts to control the mosquito Aedes aegypti (Ae.

Mosquitoes — perhaps the peskiest insect around — are becoming insecticide-resistant, NBC News reported July 29. The brutal summer heat hasn’t helped, either, as the bugs have thrived following ...

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 ...

A novel CRISPR-based tool introduces insecticide-susceptible genes without them spreading uncontrollably. Insecticide use and insecticide resistance form a vicious cycle – insecticides cause ...

Insecticides are crucial for the assurance of food security, agricultural productivity and control of disease vectors. However, resistance, defined as a hereditable change in susceptibility to an ...

"In two of these resistant strains, survivorship after insecticide treatment was not significantly different from the control group," Jenkins said. Perhaps the most important finding of the study, ...

Insecticides have been used for centuries to counteract widespread pest damage to valuable food crops. Eventually, over time, beetles, moths, flies and other insects develop genetic mutations that ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 7, 2024) The marginal user costs (MUC) of pesticide resistance for chemical-intensive farmers and the pest management industry are significantly affected by pesticide costs, ...

Insecticides play a central role in efforts to counter global impacts of mosquito-spread malaria and other diseases, which cause an estimated 750,000 deaths each year. These insect-specific chemicals, ...

Resistance to these insecticides, often called the knockdown resistance, or " kdr, " results from mutations in the vgsc gene that no longer permit the insecticide to bind to its VGSC protein target.

Shüné Oliver receives funding from the NHLS Research Trust, the National Research Foundation of South Africa and . the Wits Chancellor’s Female Academic Leaders Fellowship. Basil Brooke and Givemore ...