The Colorado potato beetle is a notorious pest—and a kind of unstoppable genius. The modern pesticide era began in the 1860s when Midwest farmers started killing these beetles by spraying them with a ...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 5, 2025) A study in PLOS One finds acute and chronic impacts of nontarget toxicity on the American burying beetle, Nicrophorus americanus, with neonicotinoid insecticide ...
A popular tourist destination in Ozark National Scenic Riverways will close for three days while exterminators battle an infestation of powderpost beetles. During a recent inspection of Alley Mill, ...
New research shows that pesticides alter how Colorado potato beetles manage their DNA. These epigenetic changes were passed down two generations suggesting that rapid resistance to pesticides may not ...