Head lice are a giant nuisance -- as many as 12 million American school children between the ages of 3 and 11 get them each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And to ...

Growers and agronomists are being urged to provide samples of the grain aphid Sitobion avenae, so experts can determine the extent of a genetic mutation that causes knock-down resistance (kdr) to ...

In the arms race of humans verses malaria-spreading mosquitos, the insects have developed a number of genetic tricks to thwart pyrethroids, a class of insecticides used to keep their populations at ...

Fighting mosquito-borne diseases often feels like a race against time. Pesticides keep the insects in check, but they often stop working once the bugs evolve to become resistant to the chemicals. Now, ...

Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite can become resistant to the insecticide that ...

The high levels of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) seen in cereal crops last year can in part be attributed to the widespread pyrethroid resistance in the grain aphid (Sitobion avenae), an expert ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The pharmacotherapy of head lice has been a frequent topic of this column, owing to its commonality, therapeutic ...

Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, Vol. 121, No. 2 (April 2014), pp. 89-95 (7 pages) Pollen beetle (Meligethes aeneus, Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) is the most important pest of oilseed rape in ...

It is enough to make your head spin – or at least itch. Eighty per cent of head lice appear resistant to a common treatment that relies on pyrethroid chemicals, researchers report. They add that the ...

Researchers have shown the rapid selection of a novel P450 enzyme leading to insecticide resistance in a major malaria vector. Researchers from LSTM, with partners from a number of international ...