A few minutes in the microwave made a common insecticide about 10 times more lethal to mosquitoes in lab experiments. The toxin deltamethrin is used around the world in home sprays and bed nets to ...

A: If they have to use something to kill the fleas, they need to use something that is safe for people as well as the animals involved. Food-grade diatomaceous earth (DE) pumped into the burrows would ...

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 ...

The acquisition of insecticide resistance has given one of the best opportunities to assess microevolution processes, partly because the nature of the selective agent is well identified and partly ...

p>Through a simple process of heating and cooling, New York University researchers have created a new crystal form of deltamethrin--a common insecticide used to control malaria--resulting in an ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —Bed bugs tuck themselves away into dark, unseen spaces and multiply rapidly, making them difficult to control. That job has gotten even harder in recent years as the pests have ...

Chlorpyrifos, teflubenzuron, or deltamethrin: these are the barbaric names of the chemicals, which are the tools of battle to stem the locust invasion plaguing East Africa. On Monday, the Kenyan ...

BMC health wing officials said the drive is being carried out only in the evening as the fog in the morning is making it unfavourable to carry out the drive during that time. BHUBANESWAR: As ...