Bed bugs have developed resistance to neonicotinoids

Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 09:40 in Health & Medicine

A new study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology is the first to report that bed bugs have developed resistance to a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics, the shortened name. Neonics are the most widely used group of insecticides today, and several products have been developed for bed bug control over […]

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