In one county in England, these "super rats" have built up such resistance to certain toxins that they can consume five times as much poison as rats in other counties before dying. From insect ...

78, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), pp. 386-399 (14 pages) Pesticide resistance in Florida was characterized through a survey and literature review. The survey was conducted in 1994 among public-sector ...

Steel garages are a practical choice for many property owners due to their durability and versatility. Among their key ...

Insecticide resistance typically takes many generations to evolve, usually because tweaks to the insects’ own genomes. But the bean bug’s strategy allows it to acquire such resistance with ...

When susceptible pests munch on these “Bt crops,” they get poisoned. But insects that have developed resistance to Bt toxins can live on undeterred, and that resistance is growing. “When Bt crops were ...

Mosquitoes in Tanzania's Morogoro region developed insecticide resistance Researchers are calling for urgent research into ...

GE maize seed comes from the seller with innate pest resistance. Functionally, this means that growers will be handling and applying fewer chemical insecticides, which has both health benefits for ...

Introduce herbicide resistance, which results in less herbicides being used, as weeds are quickly and selectively killed. Insect and pest resistance can be developed and inserted into the plants.

The protein, the researchers discovered, is resistant to insecticide, allowing mosquitoes to land on treated bed nets and live on to spread the disease they are carrying. The researchers suggest ...