Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service have shown that seed meal from plants in the mustard family can kill mosquito larvae, which start their lives in stagnant water before emerging into ...
Can cannabidiol (CBD) be used to counter insecticide resistance, specifically for mosquitoes? This is what a recent study published in Insects hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated ...
An experimental machine that kills mosquito larvae and pupae with sound waves could help Cass County workers control the swarming insects as early as next year. Darwin Hinrichs, the county's Weed and ...
Many mosquito species have developed resistance to synthetic insecticides. Extracts with these metabolites produced by three isolates killed 100 percent of mosquito larvae within 24 hours of exposure.
In Brazil, researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), the University of Brasília (UnB), and two startups in the city of Ribeirão Preto have found a compound in the propolis of the stingless ...
The Allegheny County Health Department will begin trying to kill mosquitoes before they even take flight. Throughout April and continuing into May, the health department's Housing and Community ...
Blood-hungry, disease-carrying mosquitoes, as much a part of a hot, sticky Long Island summer as a Mister Softee jingle or a day at Jones Beach, are back for the season and looking to bite. But the ...
Mosquitoes that carry pathogens often develop resistance to insecticides. Biopesticides offer an ecologically friendly way to control the pests and mitigate resistance, but options are limited.