Neem oil comes from the pressed fruit of the neem tree, which is native to India and Africa. Neem oil has natural insect-repelling properties, making for a useful yet organic insecticide. To use on ...

Very low concentrations of the popular organic insecticide Spinosad have profound effects on beneficial insect species, including vision loss and neurodegeneration, new research led by the University ...

Coffee is a natural insect repellant, but natural selection lets coffee borer bugs fight back - with the help of microbes! Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) Emma Dauster: Writer Angela Reed: Fact Checker ...

When I was a kid, I hated picking beans. It was hot, humid, and eventually, I was sunburned from picking them. The work was intense, because my sister and I put off picking them until the bounty was ...

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Learn about these simple homemade natural insect repellents and nontoxic recipes for soothing bug bites to keep pests at bay. Being outdoors during the summer months will inevitably lead to encounters ...

A new study claims an organic diet can significantly reduce pesticide levels, but the research doesn’t hold up. Published February 12 in the journal Environmental Research, the authors of the study ...

For the first time, researchers in Australia have documented insecticide resistance in field-collected populations of bluegreen aphids, Acyrthosiphon kondoi—a worldwide pest of pulses and other legume ...