| 单词 | insecticide |
| 例句 | It makes the progenitor of all this group of insecticides, DDT, seem by comparison almost harmless. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One of the earliest pesticides associated with cancer is arsenic, occurring in sodium arsenite as a weed killer, and in calcium arsenate and various other compounds as insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All specimens sent to the Fish and Wildlife Service for analysis were found to contain insecticides in amounts sufficient to cause their death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Although these two are the least toxic of the modern insecticides, Dr. Pickett hopes by further research to replace them with safer and more selective materials. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In view of the severe damage they inflict upon the nervous system, it was perhaps inevitable that these insecticides would eventually be linked with mental disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The insecticide responsible for these cases Has been withdrawn from the market, but some of those now in use may be capable of like harm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Everyone got quiet at the thought of the spray truck spewing insecticide every other night. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the nesting colonies of the grebes dwindled — from more than 1000 pairs before the first insecticide treatment to about 30 pairs in i960. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Explosive increases in some kinds of soil organisms have occurred when others have been reduced by insecticides, disturbing the relation of predator to prey. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The spider mite, for example, has become practically a worldwide pest as DDT and other insecticides have killed off its enemies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After the disastrous 1957 spraying the program was abruptly and drastically curtailed, with vague statements about “evaluating” previous work and testing alternative insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Anyone who has watched the dusters and sprayers of arsenical insecticides at work must have been impressed by the almost supreme carelessness with which the poisonous substances are dispensed.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The long duration of its residues and the effective insecticidal action make dieldrin one of the most used insecticides today, despite the appalling destruction of wildlife that has followed its use. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z However, the recent development of resistance to these insecticides confronts the exterminators with the problem of where to go next. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The “harmless” insecticides malathion and methoxychlor are less poisonous than their relatives only because a liver enzyme deals with them, altering their molecules in such a way that their capacity for harm is lessened. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Packaged foods in warehouses are subjected to repeated aerosol treatments with DDT, lindane, and other insecticides, which may penetrate the packaging materials and occur in measurable quantities on the contained foods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In Panama, where tests were begun in 1961, this bacterial insecticide may be the answer to one or more of the serious problems confronting banana growers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Even smaller doses of many other insecticides would be lethal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The actions of the moribund foxes were those of animals poisoned by chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The conditions usually responsible for these losses in Oklahoma were those made familiar by repetition over the years: the application of insecticides to crops, a heavy rain, and poison washed into the ponds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The world of systemic insecticides is a weird world, surpassing the imaginings of the brothers Grimm — perhaps most closely akin to the cartoon world of Charles Addams. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Economic entomologists must realize,” wrote A. D. Pickett of Nova Scotia, “that they are dealing with living things . . . their work must be more than simply insecticide testing or a quest for highly destructive chemicals.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is no longer necessary to guess about the storage of insecticides in the eggs of birds, which obviously lend themselves to this kind of observation more readily than the mammalian ovum. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Several facts suggested that the robins were being poisoned, not so much by direct contact with the insecticides as indirectly, by eating earthworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Farmers nowadays find it difficult to obtain uncontaminated fodder for their milk cows, though the Food and Drug Administration forbids the presence of insecticide residues in milk shipped in interstate commerce. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Control of the gnats was at first good, but by 1954 the treatment had to be repeated, this time at the rate of 1 part of insecticide in 50 million parts of water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Department of Agriculture’s Yearbook for 1952, devoted entirely to insects, recognizes the fact that insects become resistant but says, “More applications or greater quantities of the insecticides are needed then for adequate control.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Congress because it killed millions of birds, fish, and amphibians after World War II, the insecticide called DDT was still being used in South America. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Fish from the lakes were also found to contain insecticides; so did samples of plankton. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is important to remember, therefore, that the fat-soluble insecticides become stored in individual cells, where they are in position to interfere with the most vital and necessary functions of oxidation and energy production. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Whenever insecticides are applied only minimum dosages are used — barely enough to control the pest without avoidable harm to beneficial species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Fishes of the southern states have also suffered heavily from insecticides used against cotton insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Urethane belongs to the group of chemicals called carbamates, from which an increasing number of insecticides and other agricultural chemicals are drawn. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This very sort of contamination has created endless problems for at least one leading manufacturer of baby foods who has been unwilling to buy any fruits or vegetables on which toxic insecticides have been used. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Peanuts grown later in this soil pick up considerable amounts of the insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Despite the lack of justification the program was launched, with the state providing the manpower and supervising the operation, the federal government providing equipment and additional men, and the communities paying for the insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The passage of a few years and the development of even more poisonous insecticides served to increase the hazard from treated seed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A Chilean scientist has pointed out that malaria-carrying mosquitoes persist in his country in spite of insecticide treatment; the release of sterile males might then provide the final blow needed to eliminate this population. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Every night on her way back from her bath Meme would find a desperate Fernanda killing butterflies with an insecticide bomb. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It is not uncommon for their egg production to be increased threefold — all through the beneficent effect of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In being man-made — by ingenious laboratory manipulation of the molecules, substituting atoms, altering their arrangement — they differ sharply from the simpler insecticides of prewar days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As Mom handed it over to me, she said, “Do you smell that? There’s insecticide in here, too.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The delicate larvae themselves are killed by very small quantities of many of the common insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In some Canadian forests a virus that affects pine sawflies has proved so effective in control that it has replaced insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The other group consists of the organic phosphorus insecticides, and is represented by the reasonably familiar malathion and parathion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All had a history of prolonged exposure to organic phosphorus insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Fishes are almost fantastically sensitive to the chlorinated hydrocarbons that make up the bulk of modern insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The outlay for insecticides in Nova Scotia apple orchards is only from 10 to 20 per cent of the amount spent in most other apple-growing areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In England the major problem seems to be a specialized one, linked with the growing practice of treating seed with insecticides before sowing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The fact that the insecticide was applied in very low concentrations is meaningless, as its explosive progress through the natural food chain in the lake demonstrates. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The resort to weapons such as insecticides to control it is a proof of insufficient knowledge and of an incapacity so to guide the processes of nature that brute force becomes unnecessary. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What makes an insecticide a systemic is the ability to permeate all the tissues of a plant or animal and make them toxic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Every hardware store, garden-supply shop, and supermarket has rows of insecticides for every conceivable horticultural situation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To make certain that we shall at all times be prepared to repel insects, an exclusive New York store advertises a pocket-sized insecticide dispenser, suitable for the purse or for beach, golf, or fishing gear. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Efforts were made to control it but they were largely fruitless until, in the late 1940’s, the chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides offered new weapons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The organic phosphorus insecticides act on the living organism in a peculiar way. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the warm enclosed waters of farm ponds, conditions are very likely to be lethal for fish when insecticides are applied in the vicinity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Among these is the discovery that the toxicity of an organic phosphate can be increased by a second agent that is not necessarily an insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In feeding on the leaves the worms also swallow the insecticide, accumulating and concentrating it in their bodies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The fact of insecticide storage in the germ cells of any species should therefore disturb us, suggesting comparable effects in human beings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The physiological effect of DDD is probably unique among insecticides, for it destroys part of the adrenal gland — the cells of the outer layer known as the adrenal cortex, which secretes the hormone cortin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes the menace is to the crop itself — a menace that remains as long as the insecticide contamination is in the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the available circumstantial evidence points to insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The very substantial financial investment involved in backing and launching an insecticide may be swept away as the insects prove once more that the effective approach to nature is not through brute force. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A common insecticide for household use, including assorted uses in the kitchen, is chlordane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The insecticide tolerance of young commercial shrimp just past larval life was found to be exceedingly low — measured in parts per billion instead of the more commonly used standard of parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At that time it was believed that insecticides — then inorganic chemicals — would solve the problems of insect control, that the only task was to induce fruit growers to follow the recommended methods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The prospect of a general and permanent lowering of environmental resistance becomes grimly and increasingly real with each passing year as the number, variety, and destructiveness of insecticides grows. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But knowing their bias, how much credence can we give to their protests that insecticides are harmless? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Aldrin, like most of this group of insecticides, projects a menacing shadow into the future, the shadow of sterility. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The origin of these insecticides has a certain ironic significance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Despite the warnings of cancer experts, carbamates are now widely used, not only as insecticides, weed killers, and fungicides, but also in a variety of products including plasticizers, medicines, clothing, and insulating materials. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This flushing had undoubtedly released insecticides lodged in the accumulation of gravel, sand, and rubble and carried them into the lake and thence to the river, where chemical tests later established their presence. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With the development of the new organic insecticides and the abundance of surplus planes after the Second World War, all this was forgotten. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the future it may become necessary to analyze soils for insecticides before planting certain food crops. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Julie’s topic of the day was insecticides, their uses and history. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It was caused not by an insecticide but by a substance belonging chemically to the same group as the organic phosphate insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The result has been a seemingly endless stream of synthetic insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Eight years later the facilities of the arsenal were leased to a private oil company for the production of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The vedalia can be maintained only by repeated releases and by the most careful attention to spray schedules, to minimize their contact with insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A substantial number of the remaining 98 per cent were engaged in research on chemical insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z However, a veterinarian in Bainbridge, Georgia, Dr. Otis L. Poitevint, who was called upon to treat many of the affected animals, has summarized his reasons for attributing the deaths to the insecticide as follows. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If a huge skull and crossbones were suspended above the insecticide department the customer might at least enter it with the respect normally accorded death-dealing materials. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet for a week after the application of the insecticide the water remained poisonous, a fact attested by the daily deaths of goldfish suspended in cages downstream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some insecticides affect sensitive plants such as beans, wheat, barley, or rye, retarding root development or depressing growth of seedlings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One of the most significant facts about the chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides is their effect on the liver. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Probably the first medical use of modern insecticides occurred in Italy in 1943 when the Allied Military Government launched a successful attack on typhus by dusting enormous numbers of people with DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She first tried to kill them with a broom, then with insecticides, and finally with lye, but the next day they were back in the same place, still passing by, tenacious and invincible. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Tobacco grown in the eastern Mediterranean countries where arsenical insecticides are not used has shown no such increase in arsenic content. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “She thinks someone sprayed insecticide in her apartment, Nia. She gets paranoid.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z In experimental animals the chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides freely cross the barrier of the placenta, the traditional protective shield between the embryo and harmful substances in the mother’s body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Carrots absorb more insecticide than any other crop studied; if the chemical used happens to be lindane, carrots actually accumulate higher concentrations than are present in the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In view of these antecedents, it is not surprising that three of the insecticides that are related to this group are among the most violently poisonous of all the hydrocarbons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Among the general population with no known gross exposures to insecticides it may be assumed that much of the DDT stored in fat deposits has entered the body in food. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Kitchen shelf paper, white or tinted to match one’s color scheme, may be impregnated with insecticide, not merely on one but on both sides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Cats are extremely sensitive to all insecticides and especially so, it seems, to dieldrin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Birds picked up in a dying condition showed the typical symptoms of insecticide poisoning — tremoring, loss of ability to fly, paralysis, convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The method as here applied seems to have marked advantages over the conventional broadcasting of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When scientists investigated the native diet of the Eskimos in this region it was found to be free from insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The average purchaser is completely bewildered by the array of available insecticides, fungicides, and weed killers, and has no way of knowing which are the deadly ones, which reasonably safe. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Before that year, only limited use had been made of organic insecticides for the control of the boll weevil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And however rapidly technology may invent new uses for insecticides and new ways of applying them, it is likely to find the insects keeping a lap ahead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The second major group of insecticides, the alkyl or organic phosphates, are among the most poisonous chemicals in the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All these matters attended to, we may round out our day with insecticides by going to sleep under a mothproof blanket impregnated with dieldrin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Large lots of green coffee in burlap bags have become contaminated while being transported by vessels also carrying a cargo of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I have never known anyone who would even venture to stick his toe in its polluted brown waters, which seethe with sewage, industrial waste, and deadly insecticides. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They had cleaned up the mess after the virus had wiped out everyone else, and now they were busy fogging the rooms with insecticide, in the hope that it might somehow disperse the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Requests for money for wildlife- insecticide research were included in annual budgets submitted to the Illinois legislature by the Natural History Survey, but were invariably among the first items to be eliminated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I have visions of opposing teams making enormous flyswatters and giant cans of insecticide out of papier-mache to humiliate us during half- time programs. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The lake was surveyed, its volume determined, and the insecticide applied in such great dilution that for every part of chemical there would be 70 million parts of water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This death-by-indirection now finds its counterpart in what are known as “systemic insecticides.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Various cases of delayed paralysis have followed use of one or another of these insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Consider the farmer who sprays his fields with insecticide to kill the bugs that are damaging his crops. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Resistance to insecticides by mosquitoes of the anophelene group has surged upward at an astounding rate, being created by the thoroughness of the very house-spraying programs designed to eliminate malaria. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But instead the display is homey and cheerful, and, with the pickles and olives across the aisle and the bath and laundry soaps adjoining, the rows upon rows of insecticides are displayed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Each of these outbreaks had followed forest spraying with insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One of the most important things to remember about insecticides in soil is their long persistence, measured not in months but in years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Agencies concerned with vector-borne disease are at present coping with their problems by switching from one insecticide to another as resistance develops. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Recognizing that they had a strong ally in nature, they devised a program that makes maximum use of natural controls and minimum use of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On the advice of agricultural experts and insecticide manufacturers, they chose heptachlor as the control agent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For some reason, snail-like mollusks seem to be almost immune to the effects of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We must not only be concerned with what is happening to the soil; we must wonder to what extent insecticides are absorbed from contaminated soils and introduced into plant tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A related chemical, pentachlorophenol, sometimes known as “penta,” is used as a weed killer as well as an insecticide, often being sprayed along railroad tracks and in waste areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then a group of three chemical plant workers developed acute poisoning from exposure to other insecticides of this group. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On searching further, the fishery officers found other plants where rains or ordinary clean-up waters would carry insecticides into the sewer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This was but the prelude to more, for each rain washed more of the insecticide into the river, killing more fish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These may be cases of secondary poisoning, caused by eating birds or mice that have accumulated insecticides in their livers or other organs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What would happen to wildlife as a result of the insecticide used against the ants was another matter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Its survey indicated that fewer than fifteen people out of a hundred of those using insecticide aerosols and sprays are even aware of the warnings on the containers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But on contact with the organic phosphorus insecticides, the protective enzyme is destroyed, and as the quantity of the enzyme is reduced that of the transmitting chemical builds up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Conditions are evidently no better now than when the modern insecticides first came into use. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In eastern forests of Canada and the United States bacterial insecticides may be one important answer to the problems of such forest insects as the budworms and the gypsy moth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Could we make use of them as, perhaps, very selective insecticides? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The herbicides, then, like the insecticides, include some very dangerous chemicals, and their careless use in the belief that they are “safe” can have disastrous results. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These conditions may easily be duplicated as a result of heavy applications of arsenical insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Between the major groups of insecticides, and between them and other chemicals, there are interactions that have serious potentials. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Even the chemical industry recognizes the frequent misuse of insecticides and the need for education of farmers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Again, this is because it inhibits the liver enzyme that normally would “draw the teeth” of the poisonous insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Dr. Knipling has pointed out that effective chemical insect sterilization “might easily outdo some of the best of known insecticides.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Too many of them are to be found defending herbicides as “harmless” to wildlife because they are thought to be less toxic than insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For example, a sample of drinking water from an orchard area in Pennsylvania, when tested on fish in a laboratory, contained enough insecticide to kill all of the test fish in only four hours. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We know, too, that the antimosquito breeding campaigns in Cuba and Panama were very effective in halting the infections and that massive insecticide campaigns can control the populations of Aedes aegypti. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In the first place, as we have seen, the housefly has now become virtually uncontrollable by insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Much depends on the type of soil, the crop, and the nature and concentration of the insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There is interaction even between the two major groups of insecticides usually thought to be completely distinct in their action. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Both major types of insecticides, the chlorinated hydrocarbons and the organic phosphates, directly affect the nervous system, although in somewhat different ways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z About two decades later various other organic phosphates came into use as insecticides, as we have seen, and soon cases reminiscent of the ginger paralysis episode began to occur. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is now known that many pairs of organic phosphate insecticides are highly dangerous, the toxicity being stepped up or “potentiated” through the combined action. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, a good many chemicals also have the power to separate oxidation from energy production, and the insecticides and weed killers are well represented on the list. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As yet insufficient time has elapsed to reveal the full effect of the new chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides and of the modern herbicides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet this chemical, a form of benzene hexachloride, is much used in vaporizers, devices that pour a stream of volatilized insecticide vapor into homes, offices, restaurants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But insecticides and weed killers are brought into intimate contact with large numbers of people. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It would not be difficult to create conditions similar to those in Reichenstein and Cordoba by long continued use of arsenical insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Why does not everyone handling and using insecticides develop the same symptoms? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Many chemicals used as pesticides — herbicides as well as insecticides — belong to this group of substances that have the ability to damage the chromosomes, interfere with normal cell division, or cause mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They all pulled away quickly, just ahead of the cloud of insecticide. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s wrong to spray them with DDT and other insecticides, he says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The major chemical companies are pouring money into the universities to support research on insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Why does the spider mite appear to thrive on insecticides? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I knew that Erik and Arthur were practicing in the back Would they stop when they smelled the insecticide? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The hazard exists not only for the man who may spray this week with one insecticide and next week with another; it exists also for the consumer of sprayed products. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The common salad bowl may easily present a combination of organic phosphate insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What this may be is not yet definitely known, but there is some evidence that insecticides are responsible. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For example, one of the plasticizing agents may act even more strongly than another insecticide to make malathion more dangerous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There is reason to hope the new microbial insecticide will eliminate both the tortricids and the borers and that it will do so without upsetting natural controls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There is some evidence that the average level has risen since then to a consistently higher figure, and individuals with occupational or other special exposures to insecticides of course store even more. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Bacterial insecticides have already been tried on a wide variety of vegetables, especially in California. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If the potential hazards of the chemosterilants are not constantly borne in mind we could easily find ourselves in even worse trouble than that now created by the insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In connection with the nearly universal use of insecticides that are liver poisons, it is interesting to note the sharp rise in hepatitis that began during the 1950’s and is continuing a fluctuating climb. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The bag had once contained an insecticide called parathion, one of the organic phosphates; tests established death by parathion poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These insecticides are not selective poisons; they do not single out the one species of which we desire to be rid. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To some the term microbial insecticide may conjure up pictures of bacterial warfare that would endanger other forms of life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In nature it is kept in check by various predators such as ladybugs, a gall midge, predaceous mites and several pirate bugs, all of them extremely sensitive to insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In such places the use of insecticides without regard for the effects on fish creates immediate problems. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Manole died Wednesday on her 43rd birthday after drinking a powerful insecticide. Church: No full burial service for Romanian singer 2010-07-16T12:05:00Z I didn't want to use an insecticide with harsh chemicals, so I made my own concoction. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Rules of the road 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z As a systemic insecticide, neonics are taken up within a plant’s tissues. A common pesticide may be a menace to pollinators. Know how to protect them. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z “We are not aware of all the implications and effects” of the insecticides. A common pesticide may be a menace to pollinators. Know how to protect them. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The species, whose botanical name is amanita muscaria, is thought to have been first named for its use in parts of Europe as an insecticide, according to Britain's Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, southwest London. Her Royal Highness?... Magic mushrooms at Buckingham Palace 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z You may not see them, but you can help ensure their presence by keeping insecticides out of your yard, as they are very sensitive to toxic chemicals. The gardener’s little helper 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Marx recommends treating your clothes and gear with an insecticide that contains at least 0.5 percent permethrin, which is nontoxic to humans. Tick encounters are expected to be frequent this year. Here’s what you need to know. 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z The shelves were filled with ancient bottles of grappa, honey and, in oddly close proximity, insecticide. Frugal Traveler: A Gaucho Detour From Buenos Aires 2010-12-08T04:00:00Z So insecticides that have a residual effect because of how insects contact them are effective against spiders only indirectly, by reducing their food supply, he said. Too many spiders? It’s just a cosmetic issue. 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z He even had insecticide sprayed at him during a Nashville sit-in. Steve King’s Twitter tantrum: In a week of epic right-wing outbursts, his takes the prize 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z To prepare the chillies, rinse them well because you never know what traces of insecticides remain. The 20 best breakfast recipes: part 2 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z The food was contaminated with organophoshphrous, a poisonous trace element found in insecticides. Motherlode Blog: Despite Poisoning Deaths, India’s School Lunch Program Must Go On 2013-07-17T18:21:55Z Nevertheless, she sees hope in legislation that was enacted in California, which banned the insecticide chlorpyrifos starting in February 2020. Plastic-coated agricultural chemicals are destroying human health 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z “These chemicals include … linalool propionate, which is used to treat cancer; and linalool, which is used in cockroach insecticide.” La Croix contains same ingredient found in cockroach insecticide, lawsuit claims 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, local farmers are caught in a hideous bind: spraying crops with mosquito-repelling insecticide will help save lives, but it also renders their crops unsellable. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-10-01T07:21:00Z Another study, by entomologists at the University of Maryland, demonstrated that a systemic insecticide named imidacloprid did reduce egg-laying, but again, netting was more effective. The cicadas are coming. But gardeners need not panic. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z It is not entirely clear how long the insecticide coating lasts, especially as some people will wash the nets and dry them in direct sunlight and the open air. Mosquito nets can't cure malaria 2010-07-08T09:30:00Z The one thing you shouldn’t do is reach for some kind of insecticide. Perspective | Fall is prime tree planting season, but what about next spring’s cicada eruption? 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z In the infested area, Sutphin and others are in the process of killing smaller trees-of-heaven and applying systemic insecticide to the larger ones. Perspective | ‘This is going to be a bad one’: A new pest is causing quarantines in Va. and Pa. 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z The resort is also planting endemic trees and does not use insecticides. Next Stop: In the Andaman Islands, Finding Paradise Above and Below the Sea 2012-02-10T18:14:51Z About the most uncool thing you could do is try to eradicate the cicadas with insecticides. The cicadas are coming. But gardeners need not panic. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z So they would be weeping over your body, but at the same time providing manual insecticide. Missing Theater Under the Stars (Even the Bugs and the Rain) 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Simply, I don’t want to rely on poisons — this extends to insecticides and fungicides — as a component of my gardening. Perspective | Whether or not Roundup is safe, the gardener has better options 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Carson sounded the alarm over the dire insecticide threat to that abundance. Review | John Steinbeck and biographer William Souder make a perfect pair 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z One study has shown that most contact insecticides do not significantly reduce branch damage, especially when compared with netting. The cicadas are coming. But gardeners need not panic. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Both are thus hard to control with contact insecticides. The cicadas are gone, but they left their mark on trees. Here’s what you can do. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z So I spent an enormous amount of time with terrible insecticides in very close proximity. 97-year-old actor: ‘I enjoy working with other people, particularly young — well, in my case, they’re all younger than I am’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z In one of the humorous ads he did for the insecticide Flit, for example, Geisel showed a mosquito busting a hole through a surprised woman’s tiny flower-decorated hat. Dr. Seuss Himself Was a Cat in the Hat 2013-02-03T22:07:31Z Loss of coastal habitat, insecticides and poaching are threats. The U.S. Issue: Endangered Species: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to Endangered Species 2011-05-13T20:22:51Z “The alternative would be endless investment in the development of new drugs and insecticides just to stay one step ahead of resistance. The world can’t afford that approach.” Malaria-free Sri Lanka may mark beginning of end for deadly disease 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Another popular modification — using bacterial DNA to give plants the ability to make their own insecticides — has fared slightly better, but insects, too, are evolving resistance to those toxins. Escalating U.S.-Mexico debate over corn forces questions about GMOs, food sovereignty 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z We are all better off without synthetic chemical fragrances from laundry detergents, toiletries and other products in our homes, and our gardens would be better without herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. Animal Doctor: Are my cats trying to play mind games with me? 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Kids and pets rolling around and playing in grass can be directly exposed to the insecticides and pesticides that have been applied to the grass. We're rethinking our lawn design (and you should, too) 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, a concoction named Paris green was the insecticide of choice before being replaced by lead arsenate — an unholy marriage of arsenic and lead first used in 1892. The food industry isn’t going to ditch pesticides any time soon, but you can in your own garden 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Wash the orange to remove any hint of insecticide or preservative, and shave a long spiral from the peel, keeping clear of the white, pithy material. 20 best autumn recipes: part 1 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Miss Ponchatoula Strawberry can hold forth on how crops were covered in the days before insecticide; Miss Breaux Bridge Crawfish can differentiate a male crawfish from a female. The Agriculture Queens of Louisiana 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z As a result, farmers must either tolerate lower crop yields or use even more chemical insecticides to control pests, leading to still worse declines. Insects are vanishing worldwide – making it harder to grow food 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z In addition to insecticides, some fruit is sprayed with color dyes and edible wax to slow the loss of moisture. Brighten winter meals with fresh citrus 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z I asked Joel Coats, an Iowa State University professor who specializes in insecticide toxicology, about the natural/synthetic distinction, and he agreed with Hepworth. Organic standards fight over synthetics shows there’s room for a third system After that, spray shelves and doors with an insecticide, making sure you get every crevice. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Rid your pantry of weevils and keep them away 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z In the novel’s horrific prologue, a laborer reeling from drought and debt slaughters his starving family and swallows a deadly dose of insecticide. Book review: ‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee Neonics can be implanted directly on the seed and are classified as a “systemic” insecticide because they are fully incorporated into the plant’s tissue, remaining present in pollen and nectar. Was a USDA scientist muzzled because of his bee research? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Spichiger, the pest control program’s manager, said roughly half of property owners within the WSDA’s defined treatment areas are allowing the application of insecticide. Invasive beetle population decreases in Eastern WA 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Pesticides were found in all 72 managed honeybee colony samples analyzed and researchers tallied up to 34 fungicides, 33 insecticides and 22 herbicides, with each wax sample averaging about 18 residues. Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides detected in New York state beeswax 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Its crop protection segment, which sells insecticide and herbicide, reported an 11% drop in sales to $1.71 billion due to a decline in both volumes and prices. Corteva posts smaller quarterly loss on higher seed prices 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Within 200 meters of each detection of medflies, properties will be treated with an organic insecticide, and within 100 meters of each detection of larvae or multiple adults, fruit must be removed from trees. Millions of sterile fruit flies are being dropped on L.A. to fight an infestation 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z In a draft white paper released this summer, the agency presented the results of a pilot project that reviewed data on the susceptibility of 27 species to herbicides, insecticides, and other crop protection chemicals. Pressured by lawsuits, EPA toughens pesticide rules to protect endangered species 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Because the insecticide kills larvae, its impact is not noticed until adult bugs emerge the following year. Invasive beetle population decreases in Eastern WA 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z They found that the presence of insecticides and fungicides, together with extreme-temperature events and precipitation, could explain up to 90% of the biodiversity loss in the lake. How AI Can Help Save Endangered Species 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Most infected dogs will relapse, requiring regular screening and treatment as well as topical insecticide to prevent spread to other dogs or people. Texas sand fly may carry parasites that cause disfiguring skin disease, CDC says 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Researchers generally agree that, despite the impact of insecticides and other malaria control measures, and the recent development of a malaria vaccine, new approaches against this deadly parasitic pathogen are needed. Potential for injectable 'chemical vaccine' for malaria using atovaquone 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Then, EPA will move from herbicides to a harder challenge: insecticides. Pressured by lawsuits, EPA toughens pesticide rules to protect endangered species 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z In the 1950s and 1960s farmers, municipalities and even homeowners were widely spraying the insecticide DDT to kill pests. Protecting Plants and Animals at Risk Must Start before They Need the Endangered Species Act 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z "Our results strongly favor the viral resistance hypothesis over the insecticide resistance hypothesis," Pool says. 200-year-old DNA helps map tiny fly's genetic course to new lands, modern times 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Some reputable scientists warned about synthetic chemicals — insecticides like DDT — that had become environmentally ubiquitous, which the founder of modern environmentalism, Rachel Carson, argued could render Earth “unfit for all life.” We're all gonna die! How the idea of human extinction has reshaped our world 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Although the introduction of new insecticides saw their numbers plummet in the post-World War Two period, they witnessed a resurgence in the 1990s and the early years of the 21st century. 'I've suffered from bedbugs for two years' 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Assessing their risk to endangered species will be more complicated because insecticides can harm wildlife in many ways, including neurological damage that isn’t lethal but impairs the ability of pollinators to forage. Pressured by lawsuits, EPA toughens pesticide rules to protect endangered species 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Bedbugs, an age-old curse on humans, seemingly disappeared with treatment by harsh, now-banned insecticides. France is bitten by a fear of bedbugs as it prepares to host Summer Olympics 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z “This is one more tool we will now have, but it’s not going to replace bed nets and spraying insecticides,” said John Johnson with Doctors Without Borders. UN authorizes a second malaria vaccine. Experts warn it’s not enough to stop the disease spreading 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z They are testing new insecticides and ingenious new ways to deliver them. Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Disease control methods for Ae. aegyptiemphasize the use of insecticides, which have had limited success and have led to insecticide resistance. Discovery in mosquitoes could lead to new strategy against dengue fever and other mosquito-borne vectors 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z And EPA does not regulate seeds coated with insecticides, such as neonicotinoids—a major source of exposure to insects. Pressured by lawsuits, EPA toughens pesticide rules to protect endangered species 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Every time a banana tree sprouts a leaf, it's newly vulnerable to fungal infection, so farmers spray fungicide from crop dusters and enclose growing fruits in plastic bags loaded with insecticide to deter bugs. People Who Are Changing the Environment One Community at a Time 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Additionally, some previous studies have shown that when insecticides and fungicides are combined, the results may be more toxic than for each category alone. Range of pesticides, including neonicotinoids, found in pollen of different bee species 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z When an area tests positive, Shoemaker said, the district will head back and drop compounds in water to kill larvae or spray insecticides in the area to kill the adults. WA's mosquito trackers test thousands of bugs. This year they're seeing a spike of West Nile virus 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z “What will happen to those who are unaware? If the city corporation or ward commissioner took more care and sprayed insecticides, then we could have avoided the dengue outbreak,” he said. Bangladesh is struggling to cope with a record dengue outbreak in which 778 people have died 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z The Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that most commonly spread dengue have been resistant to insecticides, which have fleeting results even in the best-case scenario. Mosquitoes, long the enemy, are now bred to help prevent the spread of dengue fever 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z The Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that most commonly spread dengue have been resistant to insecticides, which have fleeting results even in the best-case scenario. Mosquitoes, long the enemy, are now bred to help prevent the spread of dengue fever 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Paris last week sprayed insecticides to kill the Aedes albopictus mosquito that spreads dengue, in the city’s first mosquito fumigation campaign. News at a glance: Costly invasive species, cancer in younger adults, and fumigating Paris 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Each telephone pole is capped with a sort of basket wrapped in netting, which contains alpha-cypermethrin, a controlled insecticide that the U.S. government has approved for use on some crops. Inside the race to stop lanternflies—before they get to a town near you 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z But they are now seen as a conservation success story after rebounding once the use of DDT, an insecticide, was banned in 1972 in the U.S. Brown pelicans take to the sky at Ocean City 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z The teams come with insecticide every few days, she added, “but mosquitoes don’t die from it.” Dengue outbreak in Bangladesh sparks alarm after 364 people die this year and infections rise 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Overall, levels of mosquito-borne disease in the country are quite low and have been since the mid-20th century, when malaria was effectively eradicated through a nationwide campaign to spray insecticides and otherwise kill mosquitoes. Mosquitoes Carry Nasty Diseases. Here’s How to Protect Yourself 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z The aircraft was owned by Helicopter Applicators Inc. of Gettysburg, which does aerial applications such as herbicide and insecticide to farmland and other industries, according to the Springfield News-Sun. Helicopter crashes near I-70 in Ohio, killing pilot and causing minor accidents, police say 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z Officials will inspect fruit and vegetables where the fly has been present or nearby for larvae, properties will be treated with Spinosad, a natural insecticide, and will set fly traps in a broader area. Invasive fruit fly outbreak prompts agricultural quarantine in Santa Clarita Valley 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Add on the fact that people are fighting malaria with bed nets, insecticides and other tools, and it becomes hard to pin any single trend to climate change, he said. As temperatures rise, mosquitos are also on the move. Scientists worry that could mean more malaria 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Sarasota County officials have been been using aircraft, trucks and ground crews to apply insecticide to the area where the malaria cases were reported. Florida county reports its 7th case of locally contracted malaria 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Additionally, Straw argued that studies need to examine not just pesticides "very broadly," but also specifically investigate subcategories like insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. We have no idea if pesticide protections for bees actually work — a serious issue for conservation 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z That was curbed by changes to the landscape, such as draining marshes and swamps, and the use of insecticides. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z The benefits of the program is that authorities won’t have to resort to potentially harmful insecticides to eradicate the pests. Cyprus battles disease-carrying mosquitoes by breeding them with irradiated, sterilized ones 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z It praised the country for distributing mosquito nets treated with insecticide and encouraging the spraying of insecticides indoors. Belize declared free from malaria by health chiefs 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The adverse effects of the insecticides known as neonicotinoids on bees are well documented. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z In order to avoid tick bites, wear long clothing, stuff your pant legs into your socks and consider treating your clothes with permethrin insecticide to avoid unwanted passengers. How to Protect Yourself from Ticks and the Dangerous Diseases They Spread 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z He is accused of spraying an insecticide at police officers guarding the Capitol and attacking members of the news media. Jay Johnston, ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Actor, Is Arrested on Jan. 6 Charges 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The owner of a Long Island funeral home was charged on Wednesday with spraying an insecticide at police officers guarding the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Man Charged With Spraying Police With Insecticide on Jan. 6 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z An FBI agent wrote in court papers that Moloney appears to have come to the Capitol “prepared for violence,” with protective eyewear, a helmet and a can of insecticide - wasp, hornet & yellow jacket killer. Owner of funeral homes accused of spraying insecticide at cops, assaulting media at Jan. 6 riot 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Although their concentration in flower nectar and pollen is typically too low to kill instantly, these insecticides affect learning, navigation, foraging efficiency and reproductive success, severely impacting populations of wild bees. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Video shows Moloney spraying the insecticide at officers who were desperately trying to beat back the angry mob and protect the Capitol, the agent wrote. Owner of funeral homes accused of spraying insecticide at cops, assaulting media at Jan. 6 riot 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Fungi are currently under investigation as potential microbial insecticides, with several already on the market. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z After he approached a line of officers arrayed behind metal barricades on the west side of the building, prosecutors said, he sprayed several of them with the insecticide. Man Charged With Spraying Police With Insecticide on Jan. 6 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z As a result, it has been approved for use by organic farmers as a natural insecticide. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z He pauses as he watches a plane drop insecticide from a very low altitude. Column: For Santiago Nieto, all roads in California lead to farmworkers 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z An FBI agent wrote in court papers that Moloney appears to have come to the Capitol “prepared for violence,” with protective eyewear, a helmet and a can of insecticide — wasp, hornet & yellow jacket killer. Owner of funeral homes accused of spraying insecticide at cops, assaulting media at Jan. 6 riot 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Spencer said he has had success battling the crape myrtle bark scale by soaking the soil in a trench at the base of the tree with a commercial insecticide that is absorbed through the roots. Crape myrtle trees are under attack by a tiny pest. A cure is elusive. 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Moloney’s case appears to be the first in which someone was accused of using insecticide as a weapon against the police. Man Charged With Spraying Police With Insecticide on Jan. 6 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The potential to use fungi as microbial insecticides is being investigated, with several species already on the market. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z This may be linked to European policies intended to reduce insecticide use. Fruit producers turn to nets for better crops 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Scientists believe that the species has been threatened by habitat degradation, lead poisoning from lead ammunition, and the synthetic insecticide DDT, which was banned in the United States in 1972. At Least 3 California Condors Die From Bird Flu in Arizona 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z The insecticide made its way into the food chain and caused eggshells to become frail and brittle. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, pest control companies created baits that take advantage of roaches’ penchant for sweets, combining sugar with insecticides to lure cockroaches to their doom. When female cockroaches lost their sweet tooth, courting males cooked up a new confection 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z It is a relatively new insecticide that targets the insects’ muscles, preventing them from moving. News at a glance: Modernizing bed nets, IDing a Solar System visitor, and health lessons from Beethoven’s hair 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z "The nets, I think, will become more and more popular because insecticides are less popular," Mr Etienne says, for instance among French cherry farmers. Fruit producers turn to nets for better crops 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z One well-known example of a pollutant with dramatic population effects is the insecticide DDT, which was widely used across North America in the 1950s and 1960s. ‘Plasticosis’ in Seabirds Could Herald New Era of Animal Disease 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Forty years ago, they were in danger of extinction because of a loss of habitat and the insecticide DDT. Three eaglets hatch in nest along Dulles Greenway in Leesburg 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z But in recent years, resistance to the main insecticide used to treat nets, pyrethroid, has been spreading. Next-generation bed nets get major endorsement from World Health Organization | Science | AAAS 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z But in recent years, resistance to the insecticide used to treat nets, pyrethroid, has been spreading. News at a glance: Modernizing bed nets, IDing a Solar System visitor, and health lessons from Beethoven’s hair 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z "Nets are of course a little bit expensive compared to insecticides," Mr Etienne acknowledges. Fruit producers turn to nets for better crops 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The comeback of the bald eagles is stunning, considering they were nearly wiped out by the widespread use of the synthetic insecticide DDT. Two Men Hunted and Killed a Bald Eagle in Nebraska, Sheriff Says 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The fly has also caused increased use of insecticide in fruit crops, she said. Maine blueberries vs. fly: US senator files bill to help 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z It is a relatively new insecticide that targets mosquitoes’ mitochondria, inducing muscle cramps and preventing them from moving or flying. Next-generation bed nets get major endorsement from World Health Organization | Science | AAAS 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, DDT is an agricultural insecticide that was commonly used in the mid 1900s. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Others can get added by certain fertilizers and insecticides, said Arthur Villordon, a professor at Louisiana State University who specializes in sweet potato farming. How Do Heavy Metals Like Lead Get in Baby Food? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The state set up thousands of traps and coordinated insecticide application on 2,038 properties in the Grandview area this year to limit the spread. WA expands Japanese beetle quarantine area 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The insecticides that target disease-spreading mosquitoes are running into nature’s ultimate defense mechanism: evolution. High number of mosquitoes found with mutation that resists insecticides 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z This is the first time WHO has given its full recommendation to a new insecticide formulation. Next-generation bed nets get major endorsement from World Health Organization | Science | AAAS 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Some research also has linked insecticide use with declines in barn swallows, house martins, and swifts. From flickering fireflies to lowly dung beetles, insects are vanishing 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z For example, they could stock up on medicines, or spray insecticides in certain areas to limit the hatching of mosquitoes. Climate Models Could Help Predict Future Disease Outbreaks 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z In the latter case, a class of man-made insecticides called neonicotinoids has been linked to colony collapse disorder and plummeting bee populations. Bees' average lifespan has halved in fifty years. Here's why that's bad news for humanity 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Scientists reported Wednesday that mosquitoes in Cambodia and Vietnam increasingly carry a mutation that makes them resistant to a commonly deployed insecticide. High number of mosquitoes found with mutation that resists insecticides 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z That might mean combining the use of the new nets with indoor insecticide spraying or alternating the use of IG2 nets with pyrethroid-PBO nets for a few years at a time. Next-generation bed nets get major endorsement from World Health Organization | Science | AAAS 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z It requires using an insecticide in an insect colony, or as beekeepers say, "trying to kill a bug on a bug." Bees face many challenges — and climate change is ratcheting up the pressure 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The bill lists some chemicals already banned widely, like DDT, but also includes insecticides Deltamethrin and Clothianidin used to treat crops and found in some Raid products. Mexican lawmakers push wider pesticides ban; farm groups alarmed 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z An. stephensi is fond of feeding on cattle, he notes, so treating livestock with insecticides may help. Unusual malaria outbreak tied to invasive mosquito 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z The researchers found that in Cambodia and Vietnam, 78 percent of sampled mosquitoes had a mutation that, in laboratory studies, showed resistance to permethrin, which is part of a class of insecticides known as pyrethroids. High number of mosquitoes found with mutation that resists insecticides 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Malaria parasites have developed resistance against many drugs, and the mosquitoes that spread them have adapted to withstand some insecticides. Antibody weapon against malaria shows promise in Africa 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z One prominent example: crop seeds coated with neonicotinoids, the world's most widely used class of insecticides. ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: 4 essential reads on pesticides and the environment 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z He believes the organic approach his farm is taking, such as not using insecticides or pesticides, will be beneficial for biodiversity. Rare woodpecker returns to Dorset 'due to organic farming' 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Another option is to add an insecticide that targets the immature mosquitos in their larval stage. Unusual malaria outbreak tied to invasive mosquito 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z The new study also found extreme resistance to two different insecticides sprayed in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, where mosquitoes had more than one mutation conferring resistance. High number of mosquitoes found with mutation that resists insecticides 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z For the moment, low-cost do-it-yourself remedies like smoke and insecticides offer some measure of relief. Why the capital of India Is flush with mosquitoes 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Position them far from plants treated with insecticides and fungicides, and near wetlands, forests and fields, where they can gather different kinds of pollen and have access to clean water. A once-obscure type of beekeeping could help save colonies 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The findings reflect the intense, constant pressure on mosquitoes to adapt to control measures, which has resulted not only in insecticide resistance, but also in behavioral changes. The battle against malaria in Africa has stalled. Can research in Mozambique explain why? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z And more of the insects would be unwelcome news for farmers who consider grasshoppers to be a plague and fight them with insecticides. Are grasshoppers as delicious as ham? Mexico's insect hunters would like you to find out 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z One insecticide sprayed there killed only 10 percent of mosquitoes, while the other didn’t kill any. High number of mosquitoes found with mutation that resists insecticides 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Over the last few decades, malaria's global footprints have diminished, thanks in part to interventions such as mosquito nets and insecticides used to target Anopheles. Why the capital of India Is flush with mosquitoes 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z The disease still kills more than 400,000 people a year even after dramatic progress with bed nets, insecticides and drugs. New malaria vaccine is world-changing, say scientists 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Or they may feed indoors but rest outdoors, safe from the insecticides. The battle against malaria in Africa has stalled. Can research in Mozambique explain why? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z “The logic is not that you kill them with insecticide but that you take advantage of them and collect them,” said Cerritos. Are grasshoppers as delicious as ham? Mexico's insect hunters would like you to find out 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Kasai noted that the mosquitoes with this mutation are unlikely to thrive in areas that do not use pyrethroid insecticides. High number of mosquitoes found with mutation that resists insecticides 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Mosquitoes can also evolve resistance against commonly used insecticides. Why the capital of India Is flush with mosquitoes 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Many farmers turn to insecticides to protect their harvest, but some opt for a gentler approach: They perfume their crops with behavior-influencing chemicals called pheromones that can confuse insects and prevent them from finding mates. Researchers just made it easier—and cheaper—to confuse crop pests 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Even Shakespeare wrestled with the moral implications of unprovoked insecticide: “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods,” says the newly blinded Earl of Gloucester in “King Lear.” Opinion | Smush that spotted lanternfly. Or don’t. 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z He used to hunt grasshoppers years ago but said that farmers’ insecticide had driven them away. Are grasshoppers as delicious as ham? Mexico's insect hunters would like you to find out 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z It must also be weighed against the very real hazards of existing insecticides and food preservatives. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Two C atoms, four H atoms, and two O atoms can also be arranged to form a methyl formate, which is used in manufacturing, as an insecticide, and for quick-drying finishes. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z Farmers worldwide use more than 400,000 tons of insecticide annually. Researchers just made it easier—and cheaper—to confuse crop pests 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Red coloration makes the aphids a lot more conspicuous to predators, but evidence suggests that red aphids are more resistant to insecticides than green ones. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z “If there’s the synthetic insecticide on it, that’s a great concern.” Backyard mosquito spraying booms, but may be too deadly 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Proponents see it as superior to pasteurization, preservatives, and insecticides, supplanting dangerous chemicals with a more effective process. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z As the name hints, neonicotinoids are chemically similar to nicotine, which itself is a natural insecticide. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The goal is to find biologically based insecticides. The spotted lanternfly can ruin crops. It’s invading Loudoun County. 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Bt toxin has been found to be safe for the environment, non-toxic to humans and other mammals, and is approved for use by organic farmers as a natural insecticide. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Schager said his company limits its insecticide use and usually sprays every three to four weeks, arguing that regular treatments are needed to disrupt breeding cycles. Backyard mosquito spraying booms, but may be too deadly 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z "The resort to weapons such as insecticides to control it is a proof of insufficient knowledge and of an incapacity so to guide the processes of nature that brute force becomes unnecessary," Carson observed. When conservation meant the right to kill animals 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z But while neonicotinoids were tied to colony collapse disorder, it was less clear precisely what the insecticide was doing to bees. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z On a recent Sunday, nearly 100 people hustled among two dozen tables, swapping their wares: used clothes, cleaning supplies, homemade pizza dough, insecticide, fried quince pastries. Think 9% Inflation Is Bad? Try 90%. 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z In Oregon, officials will likely try to slow the borer’s spread and reduce its population by removing infested trees, selectively using insecticides, and releasing tiny wasps that parasitize and kill the beetles’ larvae. Deadly pest reaches Oregon, sparking fears for ash trees 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Supporters also argue that insect-resistant GM plants need little, if any, insecticide to grow successfully. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z One problem Burgundy producers face is that the European Union has banned an insecticide long used to combat the black flea beetle, a scourge. Mon Dieu! No Mustard. France Stews Without its Beloved Condiment. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z "These insecticides act somewhat similarly to nicotine in the nervous system, in that they bind to the same type of receptor that nicotine does," Parkinson explained. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Compounding the problems of infectious diseases are factors such as drug-resistant pathogens, insecticide resistant carriers, and overpopulation. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z Funding for malaria totaled $3.3 billion in 2020, less than half of the estimated need, the WHO said, for tools such as treatments, bed nets and insecticides. Why world's first malaria shot won't reach millions of children who need it 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z They’ve always been subjected to a long list of existential threats: habitat loss through agriculture, construction and urban development; pesticides, insecticides and other harmful chemicals; and competition from domesticated honeybees. Wild bees, threatened by warming and wildfires, get help from WA researchers 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z The insecticide works by inhibiting development, preventing nymphs from growing into adults. ‘Biblical’ insect swarms spur Oregon push to fight pests 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z As for the tottering bees, the researchers found that the insecticides in question undeniably made it more difficult for them to maintain a straight path. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z This trait is favorable because it reduces the amount of insecticides used by farmers. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z Even before it became a commonly used insecticide, FDA scientists knew that cows treated with DDT would produce milk and meat laced with the chemical. The toxic legacy of DDT 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Just 7 years after authorizing outdoor use of the insecticide sulfoxaflor as a less toxic alternative to other products, the European Commission said last week it plans to ban it. News at a glance: Second boosters, climate protests, and an elusive woodpecker 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z As the program’s protocol calls for applying insecticide to only half the proposed area, alternately targeting swaths then skipping the next one, this means nearly 500 acres of her land will actually be sprayed. ‘Biblical’ insect swarms spur Oregon push to fight pests 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z "These insecticides act somewhat similarly to nicotine in the nervous system, in that they bind to the same type of receptor that nicotine does," Parkinson explained. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, and various other substances used to control pests. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z Still, it was used liberally within agriculture, as were hundreds of other new chemical insecticides made available following the war. The toxic legacy of DDT 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z All but a few hundred bald eagles were presumed dead by the mid-20th century, killed off largely by the widespread use of the synthetic insecticide DDT. Wind Energy Company to Pay $8 Million in Killings of 150 Eagles 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z It instructs pesticide applicators to skip swaths and apply the insecticide at lower rates than listed on the label. ‘Biblical’ insect swarms spur Oregon push to fight pests 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z There are implications to the problem of insecticide pollution not just for bees, but for humans. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z That happens, he said, because not only do the mosquitoes with the company’s genes have female offspring that die, but they are also more vulnerable to chemical insecticides than the Aedes aegypti now in California. The plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in California 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Some local authorities also spray larvicide and insecticide. Mosquitoes are happy with climate change 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z It’s a more ecologically beneficial way to control mosquitoes than spraying insecticides, said the district’s Mustapha Debboun, a medical and veterinary entomologist and retired U.S. California’s first lab-grown mosquitoes may take flight — stirring controversy 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z If he doesn’t spray insecticide - which he says he can’t get - and spread fertilizer, he doubts he’ll get a third of that amount. Ukraine’s farmers stalled, fueling fears of global food shortages 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Colony collapse disorder was eventually linked to a class of man-made insecticides called neonicotinoids. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z —Don’t spray your tree with insecticides to try to prevent an infestation. How to protect your trees from invasive beetles killing SoCal's urban forests 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z But bee populations are notoriously unstable due to a host of problems, including disease, loss of habitat and insecticides. Beekeepers turn to anti-theft technology as hive thefts rise 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Bald eagles decades ago had been killed off largely by the widespread use of the synthetic insecticide DDT. After Mounting a Comeback, Eagles Face a New Threat 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z However, Australia and New Zealand now tout a partnership with industry that requires inbound containers to be cleaned inside and out and sprayed with insecticides. Cargo, with a side of hornets, flies, and crabs 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Lab studies have also linked the insecticides to bees losing their sense of orientation. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Effective insecticides require a permit for use, and “we don’t want to be spraying insecticides in the environment if you don’t have an active infestation.” How to protect your trees from invasive beetles killing SoCal's urban forests 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Raptor populations plummeted in the first half of the 20th century because of widespread hunting and use of the insecticide DDT. If Rover Can Make It Here, Perhaps Bald Eagles Can Make It Anywhere 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Since the 1990s, bed nets impregnated with insecticides have been an invaluable tool for malaria prevention. Malaria-preventing bed nets save children’s lives—with impacts that can last for decades 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s hard to contain the old-school fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, rodenticides and fungicides you use in your yard to only your yard. How to be a more ecologically conscious homeowner — and neighbor | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z It has also been revealed through laboratory studies that this class of insecticide actually becomes more toxic during colder weather, with serious implications for bees' collective health during inclement seasons. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Residents — most of them Alaska Natives — found clothes, equipment, plastic food packaging and cans of hazardous oils and insecticides in waters where they regularly fish. Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z To eradicate thrips, Lalicata washes her plants in the shower and treats the leaves with an insecticide or neem oil. How to deal with bugs, mites and other common houseplant pests 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The timber poachers sprayed insecticide and most likely gasoline on the nest, and burned it, the authorities said. Timber Poachers Set a Forest on Fire. Tree DNA Sent One to Prison. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Mosquitoes grow resistant to insecticide used in protective bed nets. Opinion | The fight against malaria finally takes a step forward 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The attorney general also said that insecticides banned in the state were found at grow sites, some of them so toxic that they kill wildlife and poison groundwater and public waterways. State authorities destroy 1 million marijuana plants in crackdown on illegal operations 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z But a new study emphasizes how devastating this commonplace insecticide is, even in small doses. What you need to start planting and stop spraying to keep bees healthy and happy 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The astonishing discoveries of the mid-20th century, the plastics and metal alloys, the insecticides and miracle drugs, also birthed chemical byproducts that weren’t so wondrous or beneficial. You thought the oil spill was bad? In L.A., toxic waste is everywhere 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Some researchers fear that the excitement over a vaccine will overshadow existing malaria control measures that are already often underfunded, including insecticide programmes and functional health systems. Scientists Hail Historic Malaria Vaccine Approval—But Point to Challenges Ahead 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z NAIROBI, Kenya — When babies are born in western Kenya, where malaria is rife, many mothers are sent home from the hospital with one all-important baby gift: a bed net treated with insecticide. Africans Welcome New Malaria Vaccine. But Is It a ‘Game Changer'? 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Drugs to kill the parasite, bed nets to prevent bites and insecticides to kill the mosquito have all helped reduce malaria. Historic go-ahead for malaria vaccine to protect African children 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z A lengthening growing season could also increase the number of insects, which could produce more generations in a year and lead to greater resistance to insecticides. Every season is getting shorter except summer, and that’s not good 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z If detected early enough, armyworms can be killed with insecticides. Battalions of armyworms are chomping up fields across the nation — sometimes overnight 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Mills is hoping an insecticide is quickly approved for use against spotted lantern flies in his vineyards. The invasive spotted lantern fly is spreading across the Mid-Atlantic 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z The insecticide DDT thinned egg shells and decimated bald eagle populations in North America, leading to its ban in the U.S. in 1972. Birds of prey face global decline from habitat loss, poisons 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Neonicotinoids are insecticides designed to kill a broad spectrum of chewing and sucking insects, from sap suckers like aphids to leaf-chomping beetles. What you need to start planting and stop spraying to keep bees healthy and happy 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Conventional or organic insecticides are only one option to fight garden pests. 4 steps to an (almost) bug-less garden 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z Kesheimer also said the worms are so pervasive that the most effective kinds of insecticide are sold out in several regions. Battalions of armyworms are chomping up fields across the nation — sometimes overnight 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The introduction of Bt corn, which contains a gene from Bacillus thuringiensis, a naturally insect-resistant bacterium that organic farmers routinely spray on crops, dropped the crop’s insecticide use by 35 percent. Learning to Love G.M.O.s 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Instead, Vermund said, vaccines are more similar to poisoned traps, into which a pest might fall, wriggle a bit, then perish from insecticide. You got a coronavirus vaccine. But you still became infected. How did that happen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Many gardeners have gotten the memo that insecticides hurt bees. What you need to start planting and stop spraying to keep bees healthy and happy 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z "Now the bad news is this," Purcell said: "After about 18 years, the insect is now resistant to the insecticide." In California, a new strategy to fight grapevine-killing bacteria 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z These systemic insecticides, called neonics for short, are used to coat the vast majority of corn and soy seeds planted in the U.S. and farmers spray them on many fruit and vegetable crops. Earl Blumenauer wants to ban bee-killing pesticides. Is Congress listening? 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z One such study found more male rats develop Parkinson’s-like symptoms than female rats, even though both received the same level of contact with the insecticide rotenone. Parkinson’s strikes more men than women. Researchers have worked for decades to learn why. 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Tick activity is expected to be higher than usual this year, and some health experts recommend wearing clothing that’s been treated with permethrin, an insecticide. How to keep your pet safe from summer hazards 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z But a new study emphasizes how devastating this commonplace insecticide is to bees, even in small doses. What you need to start planting and stop spraying to keep bees healthy and happy 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z In entomology, Purcell added, such resistance is common if the same insecticide is used year after year. In California, a new strategy to fight grapevine-killing bacteria 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Methyl formate is used in a variety of chemical processes and as an insecticide. 8 dead, 3 injured in China factory’s chemical leak 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z This is in sharp contrast to other control methods - such as insecticides or releasing large numbers of sterile male mosquitoes - that need to be kept up in order to suppress the blood-suckers. 'Miraculous' mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77% 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z First, insecticide resistance of the major malaria vectors in Africa is widespread and increasing. We’re a step closer to figuring out why mosquitoes bite some people and not others 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z According to the Cyprus Review of June 1948, "every pool and stream and area of water-logged ground" was sprayed with insecticide. Forgotten Cyprus hero who eradicated island's malaria 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z A biotechnology firm called Oxitec delivered the eggs in late April as part of a federally approved experiment to study the use of genetic engineering—rather than insecticides—to control disease-carrying mosquito populations. First Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released in U.S. Are Hatching Now 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Mosquitoes are starting to develop resistance to current control methods such as insecticides, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District said. Health experts remind public to stay vigilant against other diseases, illnesses besides COVID-19 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Another noted that many flower farms were abandoned during the pandemic, and that with no one there to spray insecticides, disease ran rampant and ruined the crops. A flower shortage is driving up costs for a Mother’s Day of post-COVID-19 reunions 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z The reasons are varied, including that half the children in sub-Saharan Africa are not sleeping under treated nets, a major prevention measure, and mosquitoes’ emerging resistance to insecticide. Opinion | In putting out the blaze of the pandemic, we can’t forget other raging diseases 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z DDT thinned some eggshells so much that they were easily squashed, and the insecticide dehydrated others: it enlarged shell pores during maturation, allowing the fluid inside to evaporate. Ecologists Saved Bald Eagles with Helicopter Parenting 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z The current method of controlling this species is to use insecticides, but they don’t really work well. First Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released in U.S. Are Hatching Now 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The agency doesn’t try to combat pests with insecticides because it’s too expensive and impractical, Graves said. Report: Drought leaves New Mexico trees weak and dying 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z The Documentary category was won by Vito Fusco, of Italy, for his series on Kenya's pyrethrum flowers, which are used as a natural insecticide. In pictures: 2021 Sony World Photography Awards 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z But Nyatich with the FAO warned against using locusts for food because they could have been sprayed with insecticide. Poor rains bring optimism African locust outbreak will fade 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z In recent decades, the amount of insecticides used in the United States has gone down by about 40%. Birds versus bees: These species are losing out in the great pesticide trade-off 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The land will lie fallow, and will not be treated with fertilizers or insecticides, thus improving the soil dramatically for the future. Opinion | Montgomery County Council declared a ‘climate emergency’ — then sabotaged a solar program 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z For months, he’s been analyzing them for traces of insecticides called neonicotinoids. These widely used insecticides may be a threat to mammals too 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Neonicotinoids are the most widely-used class of insecticides in the world and they work by disrupting the insect central nervous system. Legal threat over bee-harming pesticide use 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z “There is some reason to worry more,” he added, “because they are the target of attack” with insecticides, herbicides and light pollution. Scientists decry death by 1,000 cuts for world’s insects 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z But farmers would likely switch to other insecticides that could pose different hazards to species —or face lower yields and higher food prices. Birds versus bees: These species are losing out in the great pesticide trade-off 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Today’s insecticides may not be as ecologically disastrous, but some can kill beneficial species, like bees. Move over murder hornets: There’s a new bug in town — and it’s coming for your lawn 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z According to Hennig, one of the reasons neonics were developed as insecticides is precisely because they don’t affect vertebrates in the same way—they attach to cell-surface receptors that are much less prevalent in vertebrates. These widely used insecticides may be a threat to mammals too 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Bioaccumulators In 1958, after noting rising mortality in birds of prey following the widespread spraying of insecticide in New England, conservation biologist Rachel Carson identified the agricultural pesticide DDT as the highly toxic culprit. When a little bit of poison is good for you: Inside the theory of dose response 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z They're the same pesticides or insecticides that are used on items that you eat. Does your Christmas tree have pesticides, and how dangerous are they? 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z At the same time, the agency is allowing it to continue to be registered in the United States, even though there are a number of alleged health risks associated with the insecticide. A neurotoxic insecticide sprayed on corn and fruit remains legal thanks to Trump’s EPA 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Whalen said monarch numbers are declining dramatically due to the increased use of genetically modified crop seeds that allow insecticide and herbicides to be sprayed on them. Wing warden: Black Hills State student rescues butterflies 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z “Our work on regenerative cropping and livestock systems”—which includes tilling less, planting cover crops, and promoting beneficial insects and more diverse crop rotations—“is showing that insecticides are really not needed.” These widely used insecticides may be a threat to mammals too 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z In other parts of the world it's either used for medicinal reasons or as an insecticide! Asafoetida: The smelly spice India loves but never grew 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z There are lots of little things like spiders and stuff that crawl around the needles on the Christmas tree, and they're not concerned about the insecticides after two or three months. Does your Christmas tree have pesticides, and how dangerous are they? 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Bangladesh struggled in the 1990s with a high rate of suicide by ingesting toxic insecticides. Focusing on Firearms Proves Contentious in Struggle to Reduce Veterans’ Suicides 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Like other boys growing up in the 1960s, he collected and killed butterflies, stowing them in drawers treated with an insecticide, paradichlorobenzene, the strong-smelling substance used in old mothballs, which also repels mites and beetles. How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z An insecticide about to be widely deployed inside African homes to combat malaria-carrying mosquitoes is already losing its punch. Some mosquitoes already have resistance to the latest weapon against malaria 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Some much milder organophosphates are used in insecticide and in medical therapies. Navalny and Russia’s arsenal of exotic poisons 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z So, there are very few insecticides that will hang around. Does your Christmas tree have pesticides, and how dangerous are they? 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Bait stations that people can put in their yards contain sugar laced with fungi or insecticide that kill mosquitoes. Scientists fight disease-carrying mosquitoes by letting them feed off their blood 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Most genetically modified crops that are on the market are made by adding a gene from bacteria to a plant’s genome—allowing it to resist an herbicide or insecticide, for example. Plants Have Hormones, Too, and Tweaking Them Could Improve Food Supply 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z “Other novel insecticide chemistries are urgently needed for malaria vector control,” Ngufor adds. Some mosquitoes already have resistance to the latest weapon against malaria 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Thirty years ago, researchers at Emory University showed that rats developed classic features of Parkinson’s when given rotenone, then a popular household insecticide that is still used by fisheries to eliminate invasive species. The Link Between Parkinson’s Disease and Toxic Chemicals 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Meanwhile an environmental group is calling on Massachusetts to avoid resorting to widespread aerial spraying of insecticide, which took place six times last year as cases surged. First COVID-19, now mosquitoes: Bracing for bug-borne ills 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Don’t spray them with insecticide or otherwise harm them. How to Catch a Swarm of Bees 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Rapid detection would enable health authorities to isolate an infected person and, if a cluster of cases emerged, the affected neighborhoods could be promptly sprayed with insecticide. Four years before the CDC fumbled coronavirus testing, the agency made some of the same mistakes with Zika 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z These programs used insecticides from four classes but relied heavily on pyrethroids because they are cheap and nontoxic to mammals including humans, Kamdem says. Some mosquitoes already have resistance to the latest weapon against malaria 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Kirura fears the swarms will spread quickly and said teams are working frantically to spray them with insecticide before they become airborne. Swarms of locusts devastate parts of northern Kenya 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z At the other end of the PhD timescale, a student investigating the molecular basis of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes is facing difficult decisions on the feasibility of a planned final round of experiments. Five ways to tackle PhD research anxieties triggered by COVID-19 lockdowns 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Coffman then grabbed a bottle of insecticide and sprayed the officer. Lawyer: Officer’s knee to neck killed man during 2018 arrest 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Nearly half of the 60 insecticide spraying machines will arrive this week, they said. India steps up efforts to curb locust infestation 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Horstmann says that to thwart, or at least slow, resistance, Bayer is developing new formulations with multiple insecticides for indoor spraying. Some mosquitoes already have resistance to the latest weapon against malaria 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z She also recommends you spray your clothes, shoes, and socks with the insecticide permethrin, which kills ticks on contact. Lyme Disease Season Is Here. These Are Tips on How to Avoid It. 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Overall, the insecticide treatment reduced the number of thief ants by 71%—and increased the number of the larger ants by 35%, Ohyama and his colleagues reported last month in Ecology. Thief ants steal—and eat—the young of other ants, decimating their populations 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z And residential neighborhoods are periodically doused with plumes of organic insecticides, a practice known as fogging. Coronavirus overshadows another dangerous viral outbreak 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The farm ministry should be allowed to use drones to spray insecticides on vast swathes of northern, western and central plains - the main farm belt, Choudhary said. India steps up efforts to curb locust infestation 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z “Resistance to clothianidin is much less prevalent than to other alternative insecticides in current use,” he says. Some mosquitoes already have resistance to the latest weapon against malaria 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The farmer doesn’t need to use insecticides, she said, because the bats keep his crop insect-free. Bats get blamed for the coronavirus. But bats face their own virus risk — from humans 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Most years, he plans for campaigns of spraying insecticide into rodent burrows, to kill fleas and slow the spread in animals. How Bubonic Plague Has Helped Russia Fight the Coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Or a lack of insect-eating birds could indicate a loss of insects from things like pesticides and insecticides, Jones says. Now’s a great time to become a backyard naturalist — here’s how 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Barbara Krasnoff, Reviews Editor Right now, I’m using a commercial cotton face mask that I bought a couple of years ago to wear while spraying some rather nasty insecticide. The Verge’s best and worst coronavirus masks 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The method of using pests’ natural enemies is known as biological control, and is considered an eco-friendly alternative to the use of insecticides. Stinkbug invasion in Turkey threatens world hazelnut supplies 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z The FAO has told us that in three of the worst affected countries, Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, they estimate that at least 100,000 hectares in each country need to be sprayed with insecticide. Desperate plea for help to tackle locust swarms 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z So is reducing your use of pesticides and insecticides. "Bee-washing" hurts bees and misleads consumers 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Homeowners use more insecticides per acre than farms do, and nearly all of them are unnecessary. Perspective | Welcome bugs into your yard. You might just save the world. 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “Other than ensuring the availability of large quantities of insecticides, we’re buying drones and sprayers to beef up our readiness to deal with the attack,” one of the sources said. India buys drones, specialist equipment to avert new locust attack 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z In coming weeks, more than two dozen neighboring farmers showed up to tend to their farm and spray insecticides on the crops as the family holed up inside their ancestral home, consumed by grief. 'He was my big, strong brother': Inside one Iowa family's anguish amid a rise in farmer suicides 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Juvenile fireflies develop underground or in leaf litter, making them vulnerable to insecticides used to target crop pests. Fireflies under threat from habitat loss, pesticides and light pollution 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Somalia's unstable security situation means that planes cannot be used to spray insecticide from the air. Somalia declares emergency over locust swarms 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z A drawback of this approach is that releasing insects is more complicated to use than simply spraying insecticides, and probably more expensive as well, Scott notes. Genetically engineered moths can knock down crop pests, but will they take off? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Asked if India would supply insecticides to Pakistan to help Islamabad deal with the locust outbreak, the first official said: “So far we haven’t received any request from Pakistan.” India buys drones, specialist equipment to avert new locust attack 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Decades ago, use of the toxic insecticide DDT sent the species spiraling toward extinction in North America and Europe. Boeing’s assembly plant is shuttered amid 737 MAX crisis. Now the company has a falcon problem. 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z The only option left was "aerial control" - spraying insecticide from aircraft. Massive locust swarms spark UN appeal for help 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z For example, we hope to see when genes for insecticide resistance arose. Sharing space with 34 million dead insects 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z In addition, organic farmers, who are a large market for biological control because they aren't allowed to spray synthetic insecticides, can't use genetically modified insects. Genetically engineered moths can knock down crop pests, but will they take off? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Islamabad could overlook a ban on trade with its arch-rival to import insecticides from India. India buys drones, specialist equipment to avert new locust attack 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Over five decades, Knight oversaw selective pruning of Herbie’s diseased limbs, and applications of insecticides and fungicides. Clones help famous elm tree named Herbie live on, for now 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Prolonged exposure to a widely used household insecticide may increase the risk for cardiovascular disease and early death, new research suggests. Long-Term Insecticide Exposure Tied to Heart Disease 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z As conventional insecticides such as pyrethroids become less effective at killing malaria-carrying mosquitoes due to the evolution of resistance, scientists are searching for innovative alternatives. Keep an Eye on These 2020 Conservation Issues 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z And they quickly evolve resistance to insecticides and crops genetically modified to kill them. Genetically engineered moths can knock down crop pests, but will they take off? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Although Ingham and co-workers’ study provides hope of reversing mosquitoes’ resistance to insecticides, it also highlights how skilled these insects are at escaping unwanted attention. Malaria-carrying mosquitoes get a leg up on insecticides 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The decision follows a September report by the agency inspector general's office that detailed the deaths of two explosive detection canines, one from heatstroke and the other from poisoning by an insecticide. State Department stops sending explosive-detecting K-9's to Jordan, Egypt over dog deaths 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z They are naked, clothes in hand, waiting for a masked attendant to douse them with DDT, an insecticide whose use would be banned in the U.S. just 16 years later. Two artists — from L.A. and Tijuana — present their visions of the border at MASS MoCA 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Last month, the Thai government’s National Hazardous Substances Committee voted to ban the use of glyphosate, paraquat and chlorpyrifos, three substances often found in pesticides and insecticides, highlighting them as “hazardous chemicals”, from Dec. 1. Thailand reverses ban of chemicals use in pesticides 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Parasites resistant to the most widely used treatment, called artemisinin-based combination therapy, are spreading, while malaria mosquitoes are increasingly resistant to insecticides. First malaria vaccine rolled out in Africa—despite limited efficacy and nagging safety concerns 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Clearly, our understanding of insecticide resistance is far from complete, and we should expect other studies in different locations to identify yet more such mechanisms, acting at local or continental levels. Malaria-carrying mosquitoes get a leg up on insecticides 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Another option is the targeted use of insecticide in high-value trees or stands. How an invasive pest threatens a Native American tradition 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z This is the opposite of other approaches, such as insecticides or releasing sterile mosquitoes. Bacterial allies make dengue fever cases dive 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Farmers in Bangladesh quickly adopted an eggplant variety engineered to kill certain insect pests after its 2014 introduction, but that crop offered an immediate benefit: Farmers need fewer insecticides. Bangladesh could be the first to cultivate golden rice, genetically altered to fight blindness 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Dharwesh recovered, but some of the insecticide was lodged in his left eye for too long. For India’s cotton farmers, cooperatives — not technology — offer stability 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Beyond insecticides, other mosquito-control strategies will probably encounter similar resistance issues. Malaria-carrying mosquitoes get a leg up on insecticides 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Citrus psyllids reproduce so rapidly that they develop a resistance to insecticides within a year. The end of Florida orange juice? A lethal disease is devastating the state’s citrus industry. 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Some areas that have used Wolbachia have been able to stop using insecticide fogging, which is good news for other insect species. Bacterial allies make dengue fever cases dive 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Thousands of mosquito nets have been distributed to put over beds and insecticide was supplied to spray in homes. Zanzibar tests drones spraying rice fields to fight malaria 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Overwhelmed, he drank several gulps of the concentrated insecticide that is present in every Telangana cotton farmer’s home. For India’s cotton farmers, cooperatives — not technology — offer stability 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z This time it doesn’t seem to be lead poisoning, which along with poisoning from pesticides and insecticides, contribute to health problems for many raptors. Indiana Raptor Center aids hawks, owls, eagles and falcons 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z For instance, she said, there are several different varieties of cempasúchil, and because they contain a natural insecticide, they are planted among food crops in Mexico. For many in Los Angeles, Day of the Dead is a chance for activism 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Income in its crop protection business, which sells insecticides and herbicides, took a hit the company booked some of its expected third-quarter Latin America sales. Corteva posts smaller loss as North America volumes rise 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z “They tell stories about EEE victims without stressing how few such victims they are; they stress the rarity of insecticide poisoning without telling comparable stories about how horrible it can be.” When residents say "no" to aerial mosquito spraying 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Thailand’s National Hazardous Substances Committee on Tuesday voted to ban the use of three “hazardous chemicals”, including paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos, often found in pesticides or insecticides. U.S. protests Thailand's chemical ban would hurt crop exports 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Farmers will not be allowed to use the insecticide, sold under brands Calypso and Biscaya, after April 30, 2020, when its current approval expires. EU to ban Bayer's pesticide linked to harming bees 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The government’s National Hazardous Substances Committee voted Tuesday to put the herbicides paraquat and glyphosate and the insecticide chlorpyrifos in the category of banned chemicals, automatically barring their use under existing law. Thailand bans use of paraquat and other toxic farm chemicals 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z In postwar Allied intelligence reports examined by Dr. Ward and his colleagues, German scientists claimed their insecticide, now called DFDT, was more effective than DDT. A Nazi Version of DDT Was Forgotten. Could It Help Fight Malaria? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The settlement, however, could set the stage for another type of insecticide attack on the shrimp. Oyster growers agree to abandon quest to use controversial insecticide in Southwest Washington tidelands 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z But despite two courses of a total-body insecticide cream, the man was still scratching himself raw. He Was Unbearably Itchy, but the Problem Wasn’t in His Skin 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z One company sells insecticides derived from small proteins in the poison of an Australian funnel-web spider. New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z This would be a matter of great concern because insecticides are the best means of malaria control currently available8. Malaria mosquitoes go with the flow 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Allied officials dismissed those assertions as fanciful, especially given the deplorable behavior of Hoechst, the German chemical manufacturer that developed the insecticide, during the war. A Nazi Version of DDT Was Forgotten. Could It Help Fight Malaria? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z A Southwest Washington oyster growers association has abandoned a quest to use a controversial insecticide that combats burrowing shrimp, a creature that can make tidelands unfit for shellfish farming. Oyster growers agree to abandon quest to use controversial insecticide in Southwest Washington tidelands 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The study also didn’t test whether the hybrid mosquitoes were resistant to insecticides or how readily they transmitted viruses. Dissent splits authors of provocative transgenic mosquito study 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z A former inmate is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, alleging it failed to provide her with medical care for a skin disease and accusing deputies of spraying her cell with insecticide. Lynwood inmate says deputies didn't treat her scabies, then sprayed her cell with insecticide 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z "There are very specific types of toxins that affect these kinds of nervous systems...and these are insecticides, pesticides, organophosphates - specific neurotoxins," Friedman said. ‘Sonic weapon’ used on diplomats in Cuba may have been pesticide, study finds 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The effectiveness of DDT, an abbreviation for dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, as an insecticide was first discovered in 1939 by Paul Hermann Müller, a Swiss chemist. A Nazi Version of DDT Was Forgotten. Could It Help Fight Malaria? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The growers wanted to use the insecticide to spray up to 500 annually of the more than 12,000 acres of tidelands used for shellfish cultivation in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor. Oyster growers agree to abandon quest to use controversial insecticide in Southwest Washington tidelands 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Also increasing are raptors such as bald eagles, which were close to extinction before the prohibition of the insecticide DDT. North America has lost 3 billion birds in 50 years 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z According to the lawsuit, another deputy instructed Velasquez not to let the trustees to spray insecticide while the inmates were inside. Lynwood inmate says deputies didn't treat her scabies, then sprayed her cell with insecticide 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The recovery of eagles and other raptors after the U.S. ban on the insecticide DDT in 1972 shows that when the cause of a decline is removed, "the birds come back like gangbusters." Three billion North American birds have vanished since 1970, surveys show 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z DDT is what is known as a contact insecticide. A Nazi Version of DDT Was Forgotten. Could It Help Fight Malaria? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z In July, the agency rejected an Obama-era proposal to ban the neurotoxic insecticide chlorpyrifos. Global climate strike: Kids are demanding action, but will adults act? 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z One of the most widely used agricultural insecticides causes severe weight loss in white-crowned sparrows and delays the migration of these common North American songbirds, according to a new study published Thursday in Science. Migrating Birds May Be Collateral Damage for a Popular Pesticide 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z |
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