Treating baby wraps with insect repellent could be an effective and scalable way to protect young children in Africa from ...

Soaking fabrics in a commonly used insect repellent is a simple and effective tool as mosquito bites become more common during daytime, study shows ...

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 ...

One Pennsylvania representative is pushing for an insecticide to be banned for use on crops, which would mirror legislation ...

Insecticides are chemicals that are used to kill or control insects. They are an important tool in modern agriculture and public health efforts to combat insect-borne diseases. One such insecticide ...

Swat. Spray. Repeat. This is the dance humans and mosquitoes have been doing for decades, ever since the rise of chemical insecticides following World War II. The pest control industry in the U.S. is ...

Colorado farmers plant tens of millions of corn seeds every year, nearly every one of them covered in a thin layer of ...

The answer is big enough, and important enough, that it’s going to take me two posts — one for each of the two main groups of genetically engineered food crops. Today, I’ll look at the environmental ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado farmers plant tens of millions of corn seeds every year, nearly every one of them covered in a thin layer of insecticide. The neonicotinoids used in ...