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

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

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

Heating an insecticide can give it new life. Microwaving the insecticide deltamethrin rearranges its crystal structure but doesn’t change its chemical composition. The rearrangement renews ...

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

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

It sounds like a contradiction, but it’s true: Insecticide-treated mosquito nets are effective even against some insecticide-resistant mosquitoes, a new study shows. Mosquito nets treated with ...

The insecticide chlorpyrifos, sold under the brand names Lorsban, Dursban, and others, has been the subject of regulatory battles for decades. It was first introduced as a pesticide in 1965, and it ...

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

The researchers say the new coating kills some of the most insecticide-resistant mosquitoes A new method of applying insecticide to netting has proved 100% effective against some strains of mosquito, ...