How Bed Bugs Outsmart Poisons Designed to Control Them

Bed bugs have made a big comeback recently, especially in urban centers. In the first study to explain recent failure to control these blood-sucking pests, toxicologists show how some bugs have developed resistance to pyrethroid neurotoxins, in particular deltamethrin, that once kept them in check.

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