Aerial Drop of Rodenticides on Farallon Islands in California Threatens...
(Beyond Pesticides, November 29, 2021) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is reviving its proposal to aerially apply (by helicopter) the toxic rodenticide brodifacoum to kill house mice on the...
View ArticleBiotech Fixes for Pesticide Failures Continue Treadmill of Increased Toxic...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 11, 2022) A team of researchers has proffered a potential, biotechnical, way forward in the quest to reduce the scourge of malaria, which affects many people across the...
View ArticleMosquito Resistance to Pesticides Continues to Grow
(Beyond Pesticides, February 24, 2022) Widespread, intensive pesticide use for mosquito control has allowed genetic mutations to persist among mosquito populations, causing subsequent resistance to...
View ArticleStudy Confirms Children’s Exposure to Mosquito Pesticides Increases Risk of...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 3, 2022) Children’s exposure to synthetic pyrethroid insecticides, particularly during the course of mosquito control operations, is associated with increased occurrence of...
View ArticleEPA Permits Experimental Release of 2.5 Billion Genetically Engineered...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 16, 2022) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has authorized the “experimental use” and release of 2.5 billion genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes in Florida and...
View ArticleCertain Essential Oils Found To Be Highly Effective at Killing Mosquito...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 24, 2022) A range of essential oils can provide high levels of larvicidal and adulticidal activity against a commonly found species of mosquito, according to research...
View ArticleCoverup of Dog Deaths at EPA, According to Internal Emails on Seresto Flea...
(Beyond Pesticides, April 1, 2022) According to reporting by E&E’s Greenwire, internal emails at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that career scientists at the agency expressed...
View ArticleCDC Study: Pesticide Use Does Not Reduce Risk of Lyme, Other Tick-Borne Disease
(Beyond Pesticides, April 26, 2022) Using pesticides to reduce the number of ticks in residential areas does not translate to lower rates of tick-borne disease in humans. This finding is the...
View ArticleCockroaches Show Increasing Resistance to Sugar-Laden Baits
(Beyond Pesticides, June 1, 2022) A new evolutionary strategy spreading among German cockroaches is making them more difficult to kill than ever before. In a recent publication in Nature Communications...
View ArticleResearchers Find Effective Biological Control for Non-Native Fire Ants
(Beyond Pesticides, June 29, 2022) A virus present in low levels in the United States is effective at managing populations of non-native fire ants, according to research. Although only focused on one...
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