The aim of this course is to provide a comprehensive review of the chemistry, toxicology, metabolism and molecular basis of action of chemical insecticides and other selected pesticidal substances.

The Tocklai Tea Research Institute in Assam has launched an innovative method to combat tea pests naturally by breeding ...

UC San Diego geneticists have developed a gene drive-based solution to the widespread problem of insecticide resistance. In ...

Pain Mitigation Strategies: Venom, particularly from species like bees and ants, contains molecules that can modulate pain ...

Augmentative biological control, involving the supplemental release of natural enemies of insect pests, can complement the sterile insect technique (SIT) in area-wide integrated pest management ...

Since insecticides are the most prevalent way of controlling crop damage from pests, their overuse has rendered pests ...

Whilst these novel insecticides differ in their chemical class, they share the same mode of action as neonicotinoids, raising the question as to whether they have similar sub-lethal impacts on ...

Recommended for biology, ecology, entomology, biological control, and related fields. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." Choice "Dixon has marked a clear and inviting path forward; ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to adequately protect more than 1,500 species of wildlife and plants from the insecticide ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and the Center for Biological Diversity won a lawsuit today against the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service over its ...

For example, nectar fuels the foraging efforts of predatory and parasitic wasps, both of which are important agents of biological pest control. Many farmers plant rows of flowering plants among ...