During the last few years the amount of insects that have become resistant to pesticides has increased and are still increasing.
*The first pesticide was elemental sulfur dusting, soon toxic chemicals such as Arsenic, Mercury, and Lead were being added. Then they started adding Nicotine from tobacco, and so on.. *
*The first pesticide was elemental sulfur dusting, soon toxic chemicals such as Arsenic, Mercury, and Lead were being added. Then they started adding Nicotine from tobacco, and so on.. *
The first time the case of resistance showed was in the early 1900’s, when the effectiveness of Lime Sulfur to kill San Jose scale (an insect that damages fruit trees and fruit-bearing plants. ) was gone.
Through generations and generations pests are adapting to changes in their environment.
More pests are becoming resistant to pesticides everyday!
They will survive a pesticide application and the resistant traits will appear stronger in the next generation than it did in the previous.
Examples of resistant insects we see everyday are:
The Housefly, Mosquito, Cockroach, Ticks... Etc...
Not long ago, the pests would die with a single spray of piff paff. But not anymore, these days we have to spray piff paff on them a dozen times until they die.
It seems that insects have the ability to develop resistance to virtually anything that kills them.
Every year scientists are making even stronger pesticides to kill those annoying little pests..
we fear that a day would come when it wouldn’t kill just insects, but it would kill us too!
