How to Resist Resistance

When I started working at the Southern Region IPM Center in 2006, I wrote several stories of projects in the region that were in the process of completion. One of them involved a mosquito-management program in Houston, Texas. Populations of the southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefaciatus) were surviving treatments of malathion, the most widely-used pesticide to control it.

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