Pesticides – News and Features

Soil could be our planet's unsung hero, quietly working behind the scenes to keep everything in balance. This article will discuss some of the worrying emerging contaminants detected in soil and how scientists are rising to the analytical challenge.

Researchers have unveiled insights into the origins of the common German cockroach, Blattella germanica and how it evolved to live in human homes and buildings.

Community gardens in higher-income Boulder neighborhoods have fewer varieties of bees than their medium-income counterparts, new research suggests.

Scientists have discovered a highly effective, nontoxic and less expensive way to lure hungry termites to their doom.

The diversity and abundance of arthropods – nature's pest control – decreases when hedgerows and field margins are removed in the move towards uniform farmland.

Insects can completely destroy crops. Soon, these situations may be behind us, with the new pesticide developed by Leiden and Wageningen researchers. With their plant-based ‘insect glue’, insects are incapacitated.

A study carried out at the University of Bonn shows how organically and conventionally farmed plants develop differently.

Researchers at Michigan State University have unraveled a surprising genetic mystery centered on acylsugars in tomato plants. These are sticky defense metabolites usually found in tiny hairs on a plant’s surface.

Researchers have unraveled a surprising genetic mystery centered on sugars found in what gardeners know as “tomato tar", revealing a "parallel universe" in tomato genetics.

A rapidly spreading virus is jeopardizing the global supply of chocolate, but vaccinating cocoa trees could help prevent the spread of the virus.