DDT-resistant insects have additional genetic advantage that helps resistance spread
...tely 25 million human lives have been saved. Today pyrethroids are most commonly used in mosquito control but they act on the same target in the nervous system as DDT and ironically spraying with DDT may therefore have pre-selected for resistance to the newer pyrethroids. ...Mosquito spray increases toxicity of pyrethroids in creek, study finds
...rprising, for their earlier studies had shown that pyrethroids from general urban pesticide use were in a high en...to spray was high enough to double the toxicity of pyrethroids already present - primarily bifenthrin, one of the more toxic chemicals of the group. PBO, when in a...