Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Biopesticide could defeat insecticide resistance in bedbugs

03/28/2017 02:57 PM EDT

Giovani Bellicanta examines one of several containers of bedbugs

A fungal biopesticide that shows promise for the control of bed bugs is highly effective even against bed-bug populations that are insecticide resistant, according to research conducted by scientists at Penn State and North Carolina State universities.


Full story at http://news.psu.edu/story/457287/2017/03/21/study-demonstrates-bed-bug-biopesticide-could-defeat-insecticide-resistance

Source
The Pennsylvania State University


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