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Pest control

Tracking Charity: Experts worry effectiveness of bed nets is waning

Health & Medicine

Bed nets were hailed as the solution to the malaria epidemic killing thousands of children in tropical parts of the world. But now, years after they were distributed en masse, the mosquitos have developed resistance and the bed nets have holes. In other words, they’re not working so well any more.

For species dependent on monsoon flooding in desert southwest, mosquitoes unwelcome competition

Environment

How to fight bed bugs without using poisonous chemicals

Health & Medicine

Malaria-resistant mosquitoes

Environment

Bed bugs: Entomological terrorists

Bee Keepers Sue EPA

A coalition of beekeepers and environmental organizations are suing the EPA to ban certain uses of a group of chemicals called neonicotinoids. These relatively recently developed agricultural pesticides are believed to be at the heart of a dramatic decline in honeybee populations.

Curing Mosquitoes of Malaria

Researchers have found a way to genetically modify a fungus to kill the malaria parasite.

The World

Knowing What You Eat

The FDA recently reopened the issue of labeling irradiated foods. That renewed debate misses the point according to commentator Suzanne Elston. She says we should be trying to learn more about our foods, not distance ourselves from them.

The World

Organophospates

Every year, the U-S uses more than a billion pounds of pesiticides to exterminate rodents and insects, weed our lawns and protect crops. Recent research on one class of insecticides — organophosphates — may lead to restrictions on their use. LOE’s Daniel Grossman reports from a Washington state orchard.

The World

Pesticides Self-Defeating

Commentator Ruth Page says that, by speeding up evolution among pests which develop genes resistant to the poison, users of pesticides are headed for certain frustration. She recommends the organic alternative: integrated pest management.