Every time chemicals are sprayed on a lawn to kill weeds or ants for example, a few naturally resistant members of the targeted population survive and create a new generation of pests that are ...

Twenty-five examples of insecticide and acaricide resistance were cited by survey respondents in agricultural, ornamental and landscape, medical and veterinary, or household and structural pests. It ...

When susceptible pests munch on these “Bt crops,” they get poisoned. But insects that have developed resistance to Bt toxins can live on undeterred, and that resistance is growing. “When Bt crops were ...