A: If they have to use something to kill the fleas, they need to use something that is safe for people as well as the animals involved. Food-grade diatomaceous earth (DE) pumped into the burrows would ...

A few minutes in the microwave made a common insecticide about 10 times more lethal to mosquitoes in lab experiments. The toxin deltamethrin is used around the world in home sprays and bed nets to ...

Heating an insecticide can give it new life. Microwaving the insecticide deltamethrin rearranges its crystal structure but doesn’t change its chemical composition. The rearrangement renews ...

The acquisition of insecticide resistance has given one of the best opportunities to assess microevolution processes, partly because the nature of the selective agent is well identified and partly ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —Bed bugs tuck themselves away into dark, unseen spaces and multiply rapidly, making them difficult to control. That job has gotten even harder in recent years as the pests have ...

Through a simple process of heating and cooling, researchers have created a new crystal form of deltamethrin -- a common insecticide used to control malaria -- resulting in an insecticide that is up ...

A newly identified crystalline polymorph (form II) of the insecticide deltamethrin, a leading compound for treating homes in areas where malaria is endemic, is significantly more efficient than the ...

When it comes to killing the always aggravating mosquito, the city has a new tool if fogging is required: deltamethrin. The insecticide will be replacing the controversial malathion, which Winnipeg ...