Currently, outbreaks are managed using chemical pesticides or an insect fungus. Neither is a good option.
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You’ve probably seen ants marching over your kitchen bench this summer. Should you get out the insecticide, or learn to live with them?
The sustainability of African agriculture is critical to the continent’s food security and for maintaining agriculture’s contribution to Africa’s rural communities and national economies
Regulators are still licensing insecticides without properly assessing whether they harm the wildlife on which we rely.
Pesticides have become almost essential for agriculture, but their misuse can have negative effects on crops too.
The rice-eating fall armyworm has spread across Asia in a year and is now found in half the provinces of China.
Researchers are only beginning to understand the impact of pollution and increased temperatures on the biology of mosquitoes.
Possible causes of limb malformations in babies born in rural areas of France.
New research shows teaming fungi with ‘friendly’ viruses could create an environmentally sustaiable and efficient way to protect crops.
Research shows that managed honey bees may pose a threat to free roaming honey bee populations.
South Africa is piloting a new technique as it drives to eliminate malaria.
A tree-killing beetle has invaded South Africa. This is what should be done.
Meta-analysis studies have made it possible to sort through apparently contradictory research by looking at the bigger picture.
Farmers needs a way to manage harmful insects without destroying the ecological balance.
The beetle and the fungus have devastated trees in California in the US as well as in Israel. Now they’re in South Africa.
The experiences of a migrant district in Scotland’s biggest city could be the shape of things to come.
Epidemiologists and public health managers are looking to complement indoor-based malaria solutions with those that focus on the outdoors. Drones are a crucial part of their armoury.
A spike in the number of malaria cases in southern Africa means that the region will not meet its initial target of eliminating malaria by 2018.
Here’s how to take the sting out of these harmful pesticides.
Malaria in South Africa is close to being eliminated but to complicate matters scientists have identified a second mosquito transmitting the disease.
Top contributors
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Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Professor of Biology (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment), University of Sussex
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Research Scientist, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Entomology and Extension Specialist, Penn State
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Associate Professor, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor at the Wits Research Institute for Malaria in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Fellow Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria
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Laboratory Manager/PhD student
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Research fellow, University of Glasgow
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Chancellor's Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Remote Sensing and GIS, Aberystwyth University
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, Adelaide University
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Ecological Entomologist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Lecturer in Ecology, University of New England