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 ...

Cotton pests can impact yield and fiber quality. Learn how IPM strategies help growers protect crops all season long.

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The effort to eliminate the mosquitoes that carry Zika and other diseases is facing new challenges as the pests become more resistant to a thinning arsenal of insecticides. Photo: Gaston De ...

Neonicotinoids -- the most widely used class of insecticides -- significantly reduce populations of predatory insects when used as seed coatings, according to researchers. The team's research ...

A study by Penn State researchers found that preventative insecticide use can increase weed populations, particularly marestail, by limiting insect activity that typically controls weeds. However, ...

Planting season for corn and soybeans across the U.S. will begin as soon as March in Southern states and then move north. As farmers plant, they will deploy vast quantities of insecticides into the ...

Bed bugs are the stuff of nightmares for many (if not most) people, so perhaps the only thing worse than spotting these pests in one's home is finding out the chemicals sprayed to kill them don't work ...

As if cockroaches weren't already hard enough to get rid of, a new study from Purdue University suggests the German cockroach – the most common in the world – is quickly evolving to resist ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nearly every foraging honey bee in the state of Indiana will encounter neonicotinoids during corn planting season, and the common seed treatments produced no improvement in crop ...

Reducing GST on household insecticides to 5% can improve affordability, widen rural access, and help curb mosquito-borne ...

Other representations also to lower GST on air purifiers and filter from 18% to nil or 5% ...