The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed registering a new type of insecticide to control Varroa mites, a parasite that has plagued honey bees for decades. Massachusetts-based GreenLight ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency has released a three-step framework for regulating insecticides, winning praise from farm groups, state agriculture departments and the USDA for reworking a widely ...

Geneticists have developed a gene drive-based solution to the widespread problem of insecticide resistance. In an effort to protect valuable crops, the researchers created an 'e-Drive' that reverses ...

Nobody wants cockroaches in their home, especially since these pests can cause and worsen allergies in children, transmit diseases and bacteria, and contaminate foods. German cockroach adult. German ...

A common variety of consumer insecticide sprays is mostly ineffective and of "little to no value" in eliminating cockroach infestations, a study in the Journal of Economic Entomology shows. Residual ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. I have a 7-year-old Japanese maple that has done well in the past and leafed ...

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 ...

Mosquitoes that are extremely resistant to insecticides have been discovered in Cambodia and Vietnam, raising concerns about the implications for controlling infectious diseases. Many of these belong ...

An insecticide commonly used on crops seems to impair navigation in big brown bats by altering the levels of brain proteins involved in memory. Big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) support agriculture by ...

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 ...