Cockroaches — they’re as adaptable and resilient as hell. They can withstand the cold, heat, radiation, and lack of food; they may even survive a nuclear attack. Almost everything we throw at them, ...

A: Suspend is a synthetic pyrethroid that is chemically similar to naturally occurring pyrethrins, but modified to be more stable in the environment. Synthetic pyrethroids do not decompose as ...

Evidence of widespread pyrethroid-resistant lice has been building for years. Yoon was among the first to report on the phenomenon in the United States 15 years ago, the press release notes, when ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 4, 2017) Exposure to commonly used pyrethroid insecticides results in the early onset of puberty in boys, according to a study presented at the 99th meeting of the Endocrine ...

Environmental exposure to common pesticides may cause boys to reach sexual maturity earlier, researchers have found.

Organophosphates and pyrethroid pesticides were found in all water samples taken over a two year period on a weekly, bi-weekly and monthly basis for the study. In addition, a study published in 2008 ...

Pyrethroid plus bed nets reduce malaria infection in areas of high resistance Researchers from LSTM confirm that in areas with high pyrethroid resistance in mosquitoes, fewer people were infected ...

How Toxic is Mosquito Spray? Mosquito season is approaching in the Northeast, and we had a very wet spring. Which means there are going to be 1) a whole bunch of mosquitoes, and 2) a whole bunch of ...

A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a fast way to detect harmful pesticide residues, with ...

More than three-quarters of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes sampled in Vietnam and Cambodia were from strains that are extremely resistant to pyrethroid insecticides ...

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