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Scientists develop non-toxic way to kill mosquitoes
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Mexico City [Mexico], Feb 13 (ANI): Scientists have developed a non-toxic way to kill mosquitoes with a simple hack that uses ordinary baker's yeast and orange oil to eliminate the nasty insects while they are still in their larval stage.
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Goodknight unveils India's most powerful liquid vaporizer 'Goodknight Gold
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 13 (ANI/PRNewswire): Identifying the need to protect families and children from the mosquito menace in India, Goodknight unveiled its latest power-packed innovation - Goodknight Gold Flash.
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GCPL and HICA join hands for an initiative to promote plastic waste dispos
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 3 (ANI/PRNewswire): With plastic waste regarded as the severest environmental concern, Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL), a leader in the household insecticide (HI) category in India, has joined hands with Home Insect Control Association (HICA), an ind
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2 pilots die in Pakistan plane crash
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Sadiqabad [Pakistan], Jan 12 (ANI): Two pilots belonging to the Federal Department's Plant Protection Unit were killed on Sunday after their plane crashed due to a 'technical fault' here while spraying insecticide in fields, according to Pakistan media.
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Researchers build annoying indestructible robotic insects
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], Jan 2 (ANI): If flies and mosquitoes weren't enough, researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a new type of robotic insects, which remain functional even if you squash them with a fly swatter.
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Malaria carrying mosquitoes are using their legs to fight off insecticides
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Liverpool [UK], Dec 26 (ANI): Mosquito varieties that are known vectors of malaria have started to come up with new ways to fend off the effects of insecticides that are commonly used against them.
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Alarming decline in insect populations, finds study
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Dec 1 (ANI): Various studies have earlier demonstrated that there are fewer creatures chirping, buzzing, creeping and fluttering in German meadows. And now a recent study reveals many insect species have decreased by one third, affecting the grasslands.
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Andhra Pradesh: Man tries to commit suicide by consuming insecticide
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Anantapur (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Nov 12 (ANI): A person allegedly tried to commit suicide by consuming insecticide here at Gummagatta Tehsildar office on Monday.
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Unable to tackle locust swarms, Sindh minister suggests Karachiites to mak
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov 12 (ANI): Karachiites are witnessing swarms of locusts descending upon their city from Balochistan's coastal areas. Taking a jibe over the situation, Sindh minister of agriculture Ismail Rahu has asked the people to take advantage of the situation calmly by preparin
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World is facing extensive insect decline: Study
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Oct 31 (ANI): A recent study reveals that in the past decade many insect species have decreased by one third, affecting the grasslands.
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Study says pollution is ruining ecosystem too
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 15 (ANI): Not only humans but plants and insects are also getting adversely affected by the high levels of pollution of major metropolitan cities of the planet, claims a study.
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Common insecticides threaten survival of wild birds: Study
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 14 (ANI): Researchers believe that a few most widely used insecticides are responsible for the declining population of the songbirds.
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