While insecticide-treated bed nets do help protect people from malaria-carrying mosquitos, the chemicals are becoming less effective as the insects develop a resistance to them. It now appears that ...

New York University researchers recently created a new and improved crystal form of deltamethrin, a common insecticide used to control malaria. The new deltamethrin—created by simply heating the ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

We love all animals – except mosquitoes. They can go straight to hell. According to a new study out of Ohio State University, hemp might help us cast those winged demons back to the fiery pits where ...

Mosquito insecticide is available at no cost to Cumberland County residents while supplies last, according to the county's Department of Public Health. The product, Mosquito Dunks, is a biological ...

Swat. Spray. Repeat. This is the dance humans and mosquitoes have been doing for decades, ever since the rise of chemical insecticides following World War II. The pest control industry in the U.S. is ...

As an environmental lawyer and a toxicologist with nearly 60 years of collective experience with hazardous waste sites, we were disheartened by David Abel’s article “ ‘Forever chemicals’ found in Mass ...

ABILENE, Texas — The City of Abilene will be spraying insecticide in the 79602 zip code after a mosquito tested positive for the West Nile Virus during a routine testing. Mary Martinez, the ...