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.

One brand of vape contained fenvalerate, a fungicide proven to lower sperm counts and prohibited in the United States since 2008. Sixteen products contained pymetrozine, an insecticide known to ...

Because of this, it has been used as a safe microbial insecticide for over 50 years to control pest caterpillars. Bt insecticides are popular with organic farmers because they are considered ...

One of the main discoveries of a new study is the identification of new variants in genes associated with insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes, the primary vectors of malaria in West ...

They also include most of the extremely dangerous pyrethroid insecticides that are linked to autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and are highly toxic to pollinators and fish. “The EPA’s ...

Our analysis showed that all classes of pesticides threaten soil invertebrates. The classes most often associated with harm (in more than 70% of cases reviewed) are organophosphate, neonicotinoid, ...

Systemic insecticides, molluscicides and nematicides spread through the vascular system of the plants and kill pests that are feeding on the plants.