Insecticides may help growers hoping to protect their crops from harmful insects, but they also may contribute to a larger amount of some weeds, according to a new study. Insecticides may help growers ...

Cotton pests can impact yield and fiber quality. Learn how IPM strategies help growers protect crops all season long.

The effort to eliminate the mosquitoes that carry Zika and other diseases is facing new challenges as the pests become more resistant to a thinning arsenal of insecticides. Photo: Gaston De ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Neonicotinoids -- the most widely used class of insecticides -- significantly reduce populations of predatory insects when used as seed coatings, according to researchers. The team's research ...

A study by Penn State researchers found that preventative insecticide use can increase weed populations, particularly marestail, by limiting insect activity that typically controls weeds. However, ...

As if cockroaches weren't already hard enough to get rid of, a new study from Purdue University suggests the German cockroach – the most common in the world – is quickly evolving to resist ...

Few things are as disheartening to a gardener than seeing unwelcome pests feasting on the literal fruits of your labor. The best insecticides for your vegetable garden target the bugs that are ...

Planting season for corn and soybeans across the U.S. will begin as soon as March in Southern states and then move north. As farmers plant, they will deploy vast quantities of insecticides into the ...

Reducing GST on household insecticides to 5% can improve affordability, widen rural access, and help curb mosquito-borne ...

Scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have found that two species of malaria-bearing mosquitoes can identify insecticides with their legs. Genetic studies of the West African ...

Other representations also to lower GST on air purifiers and filter from 18% to nil or 5% ...