A drug that makes human blood lethal to mosquitoes also acts as a potent contact insecticide absorbed through the feet, providing a promising new approach to combating insecticide resistance. Ever ...

AZoM talks to Dr. Bart Kahr about his research on the crystal structure of the insecticide imidacloprid and its environmental implications. I was trained in organic chemistry and started out by trying ...

Potts and Vanderplank 1 deduce a relation between the size of the pulvilli and the speed of action of contact insecticides. This would follow, as, to kill an insect, a lethal dose of the insecticide ...

A drug that makes human blood lethal to mosquitoes also acts as a potent contact insecticide absorbed through the feet, providing a promising new approach to combating insecticide resistance.

A new study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society explores the chemistry as well as the complicated and alarming history of DFDT, a fast-acting insecticide. We set out to study the growth of ...