Insecticides may help growers hoping to protect their crops from harmful insects, but they also may contribute to a larger amount of some weeds, according to a study led by researchers at Penn State.

Few things are as disheartening to a gardener than seeing unwelcome pests feasting on the literal fruits of your labor. The best insecticides for your vegetable garden target the bugs that are ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Farmers across America face a counterintuitive problem, according to new research. The very chemicals they spray to kill insect pests might be inadvertently helping weeds ...

AZoM talks to Dr. Bart Kahr about his research on the crystal structure of the insecticide imidacloprid and its environmental implications. I was trained in organic chemistry and started out by trying ...

A high rate of mosquitoes in one part of the world have evolved. One of the most vilified pest species on the planet continues to outsmart the ways in which humans attempt to get rid of them. "Super" ...

The answer is big enough, and important enough, that it’s going to take me two posts — one for each of the two main groups of genetically engineered food crops. Today, I’ll look at the environmental ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —Bed bugs tuck themselves away into dark, unseen spaces and multiply rapidly, making them difficult to control. That job has gotten even harder in recent years as the pests have ...

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Honeybees and bumblebees have a way to resist toxic compounds in some widely used insecticides. Such work could have broad ramifications, says study coauthor Chris Bass, an applied entomologist at the ...

Insecticides may help growers hoping to protect their crops from harmful insects, but they also may contribute to a larger amount of some weeds, according to a new study. Insecticides may help growers ...