Pesticides are causing overwhelming negative effects on hundreds of species of microbes, fungi, plants, insects, fish, birds ...
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.
The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), pp. 386-399 (14 pages) Pesticide resistance in Florida was characterized through a survey and literature review. The survey was conducted in 1994 ...
Highlighting the need for a robust surveillance system, Shri Jadhav urged stakeholders to collaborate in promoting best ...
Pesticides are used primarily in agriculture to control pests. However, they can also harm many beneficial animal, plant and fungal species that are not the target of the control. An international ...
“The sensitive, individuals that are hit by the effect of the insecticide and die by flipping; the R1, which has a mutation that makes them resistant but at a low level, and the R2, which has ...
Insecticide resistance typically takes many generations to evolve, usually because tweaks to the insects’ own genomes. But the bean bug’s strategy allows it to acquire such resistance with ...
AgPlenus Ltd., a global leader in designing and developing novel sustainable crop protection products and a subsidiary of ...
Mosquitoes in the Emirates are becoming resistant to a key insecticide, according to researchers at UAE University in Al ...
Mosquitoes in Tanzania's Morogoro region developed insecticide resistance Researchers are calling for urgent research into ...
and from that data's failure to distinguish between pesticide use on transgenic crop varieties and on their conventional counterparts. Benbrook postulates the emergence of glyphosate resistance ...
While pesticides play a crucial role in protecting crops and reducing losses, the development of eco-friendly and low-resistance pesticides has become an industry imperative, Yang said.