Africa: Mosquitoes Carrying Malaria Are Evolving More Quickly Than Insecticides Can Kill Them - Researchers Pinpoint How: [The Conversation Africa] The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more quickly. Diseases transmitted by insects present another evolutionary front: Insects themselves can evolve… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRmWzk #Malaria #InsecticideResistance #MosquitoControl #PublicHealth #InfectiousDiseases

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https://enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-2229.13247

Researchers warn of global threat to crops as insecticide resistance emerges in bluegreen aphids
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-global-threat-crops-insecticide-resistance.html

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Researchers warn of global threat to crops as insecticide resistance emerges in bluegreen aphids

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 crops.

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