Scientists at Rothamsted Research and ApresLabs Ltd have demonstrated that SYN-A, a naturally derived synergist extracted ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its policy regarding the type of insecticide used on bed nets to prevent malaria. Against the backdrop of growing resistance of disease-carrying ...

This study is part of the CPES that was first conducted in Seattle (the Children Pesticide Exposure Study – Washington, CPES-WA) from 2003 to 2004, and then repeated in Atlanta, GA (CPES-GA) from 2006 ...

Researchers have sought to determine if a new and alternative class of insecticide -- anthranilic diamides -- could be effectively used instead of the more risky ones used today. If so, farmers would ...

Farmers looking to establish linseed next spring can now use a key pyrethroid spray to manage flax flea beetle. Premium Crops has secured an extension of authorisation for minor use (Eamu) from the ...

IRD researchers and their partners devised a new control strategy against Anopheles gambiae, Africa's principal malaria vector. This involves a combination of a non-pyrethroid insecticide (propoxur) ...

One of the oldest pesticides known, pyrethrum is also the strongest insecticide allowed under National Organic Standards guidelines. Made from the dried flowers of a little white daisy now classified ...

Annapolis, MD; August 14, 2024—A common variety of consumer insecticide sprays is mostly ineffective and of "little to no value" in eliminating cockroach infestations, a new study shows. Residual ...