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.

Eventually, over time, beetles, moths, flies and other insects develop genetic mutations that render the insecticide chemicals ineffective. Escalating resistance by these mutants forces farmers and ...

Insecticides have been used for centuries to counteract widespread pest damage to valuable food crops. Eventually, over time, ...

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

Just as crop-devouring insects evolve to resist pesticides, cancer cells can increase their lethality by developing ...

Specialists from across Australia gathered at Highfields today for the annual Crop Protection Forum to find out about the ...

NAIROBI - The spread of a mosquito in East Africa that thrives in urban areas and is immune to insecticide is fuelling a ...

Acting chief health inspector of the Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Luke Vonotabua, said to put an end to ...