insecticides

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Why Do Fireflies Seem to Be Vanishing From This Andhra Pradesh Village?

Neha Jain 07/05/2020

The population density of a species of firefly in...

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How Higher Temperatures and Pollution Are Affecting Mosquitoes

Shüné Oliver 25/04/2019

Polluting activities are resulting in malaria-transmitting mosquitoes expanding into...

Kosi river, Kamala river, flooding, seasonal flooding, summer monsoon, Kosi floodplains, wetlands, shallow wetlands, freshwater fish, Banpar fishers, fishing, water spinach, insecticides, fishing nets, sluice gates, Darbhanga, Bihar,

A Myopic Effort to ‘Protect’ a Community from the Kosi Left It in a Spiral of Decline

Ranjeet Kumar Sahani 03/03/2019

In the 1960s, government engineers built embankments on the...

RNA interference, Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, electron microscopy, melanisation, EOF1, mosquito eggs, eggshell organising factor, Zika, malaria, dengue, kala azar, chikungunya, yellow fever, insecticides, bees, nicotinoids, molecular inhibitor,

Scientists Identify Protein That Mosquitoes Need to Lay Viable Eggs

Sukanya Charuchandra 15/01/2019

It's the first step to devising insecticides that specifically...

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Indian Researchers Unravel How a Common Insecticide Can Cause Diabetes

Vasudevan Mukunth 29/01/2017

They found that organophosphates, common in India, are broken...