ecosystem by consuming large numbers of insects. Recent studies have shown that the agricultural value of insect control by bats is $1.4 billion annually in Texas alone. This value includes reduced crop loss to insect pests, reduced spread of crop diseases, and reduced need for pesticide ...
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1939: DDT pesticide Though first synthesized in 1874, DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) was not used as an insecticide until 1939, when Paul Hermann Müller discovered its effectiveness at killing pests. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1948 for his discovery, and DDT was wide...
Pesticide Insecticide Neonicotinoid Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) Temporal analysis 1. Introduction In 1991, imidacloprid, the first of a new class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, was introduced (Kitsiou et al., 2009); neonicotinoids have since become the most common ...