Common insecticide can decimate tadpole populations

Monday, September 29, 2008 - 16:35 in Biology & Nature

The latest findings of a University of Pittsburgh-based project to determine the environmental impact of routine pesticide use suggests that malathion—the most popular insecticide in the United States—can decimate tadpole populations by altering their food chain, according to research published in the Oct. 1 edition of Ecological Applications.

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