Biting backfire: Some mosquitoes actually benefit from pesticide application
IMAGE: This is a predatory damselfly from the bromeliads. view more Credit: Jennifer Weathered/Utah State University The common perception that pesticides reduce or eliminate target insect species may not always hold. Jennifer Weathered and Edd Hammill report that the impacts of agricultural pesticides on assemblages of aquatic insects varied resulting in distinct ecological winners and losers…