These channels are important components of the insect nervous system and are targeted by modern pyrethroid insecticides, as well as by older, now defunct, insecticides such as DDT. Resistance was ...

Here at the Pesticide Safety Education Program, we discuss pesticide resistance topics, such as rotating pesticide chemistries, utilizing thresholds, and using non-chemical control practices such as ...

The team discovered that these plants can withstand the effects of weed killers and display resistance to damage from herbivorous insects. In particular, morning glory plants were found to resist ...

The treated plants had more holes chewed from the leaves. Surprisingly, researchers also found that plants resistant to glyphosate had less insect damage. Meanwhile, plants susceptible to glyphosate ...

When resistance is "selected," cancer cells or insects with resistant traits to treatment or pesticides, respectively, survive and reproduce, while the others are eliminated. Over time, resistant ...

But the researchers were surprised to find that plants resistant to glyphosate had less insect damage, and plants susceptible to glyphosate had more insect damage. "Ecological theory tells us that ...

Insecticides are commonly used to prevent damage to valuable crops by pests. However, over time, insects develop genetic mutations that make them resistant to insecticides, forcing farmers to increase ...

Eventually, over time, beetles, moths, flies and other insects develop genetic mutations that render the insecticide chemicals ineffective. Escalating resistance by these mutants forces farmers and ...

While DDT is mostly gone from the environment, neonics are still used on lawns, golf courses and farm fields to kill insects, poisoning the many birds that eat those insects, according to the report.