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New York City to spray pesticides to help prevent spread of mosquitoes and potential diseases - About 1 in 150 of those ...

Mosquitoes, of course, are the biggest culprit, and a new study suggests that the insects have developed a scary way to defend themselves against insecticides commonly used to fight them and the ...

Insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors poses a significant challenge to malaria control efforts worldwide. As mosquitoes develop resistance to commonly used insecticides, the effectiveness of ...

Scientist Sam Beach from Australia's Macquarie University said the method "could work as quickly as pesticides ... has been used for years to control populations of disease-spreading mosquitoes.

Chemical control involves the use of insecticides to kill immature or adult mosquitoes. New chemical, biological, and genetic approaches are being developed and may provide promising alternatives ...

Female mosquitoes are some of the deadliest organisms in the world due to their ability to spread infectious diseases through a simple bite. Mosquito-borne diseases such as yellow fever, Zika, Dengue ...

“There are three genotypes or genetic varieties” of the Aedes aegypti mosquito ... “The more insecticides are used, the more the resistant genotype is evolutionarily selected and little ...

GENETICALLY engineered "toxic male" mosquitoes could help kill off disease-spreading females ... technology that could work as quickly as pesticides without also harming beneficial species." ...

Researchers have developed genetically modified fungi that can kill malaria-transmitting mosquitoes through sexual ...