For decades, most control efforts to manage insects that damage crops, affect livestock production or transmit diseases to people depended on insecticides. However, growing concerns about their risks ...

Welcome to the Insect Pest Control Laboratory of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. This laboratory implements environmentally friendly and sustainable methods to ...

A pest control expert has revealed one thing you can do to remove flying ants from your home that doesn't involve using sprays or powders. Stephen Wales, a pest control expert from Bespoke Pest ...

New research is shining a light on one of genetics' enduring puzzles—how the workings of the so-called "selfish gene" could be harnessed to control harmful insect populations. By understanding the ...

Pantry fix or pest-control myth?

Healthier herds with reduced production losses due to flies and insect pests can come from better management, but tools, control methods and practical guidance when it comes to pest control, can play ...

New research has shed light on the importance of revolutionising methods in entomology. A publication titled "The need for a (non-destructive) method revolution in entomology" has highlighted how to ...

Since the insect population remains unaltered, paratransgenesis may pose less risk to ecosystems. Insects tend to adapt quickly to the methods humans use to control them, so it is advantageous to have ...