In a bugbittentweets blog post, Daniel Parsons discusses the association between agricultural pesticide use, public health insecticide use, and mosquito resistance.
Urio et al., 2022Malaria continues to persist globally despite many years of concerted efforts to control and eliminate the disease.
Possibly worsening this, many vector control strategies are threatened by impending challenges, such as those resulting from shifts in malaria vector species distributions, changes in their biting patterns, and from widespread insecticide resistance in targeted malaria vector species. It’s been shown that insecticide-resistance can induce a ‘fitness cost’ in the resistant mosquito, such as those impacting their fecundity, larval development, adult emergence rates, body size, survivability and lifespan, among other things.
Farming practises in south-eastern Tanzania Data showed that rice cultivation was most common across the four villages. Agrochemical use was heavy in three of the four villages, and mainly consisted of pyrethroid and organophosphate use.
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