Greener Bug Management
July 31, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Green Living
If you’re using pesticides to fight creepy crawlies you’re not only spreading harmful chemicals and pesticides around your home and family but you’re helping the bug population to become super strong. According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and other sources,
“Sometimes an insect does more than develop resistance to a pesticide. It grows to depend on the pesticide. A species of bee in Brazil actually eats the pesticide DDT! Normally, a deadly dose of DDT for bees is 6 parts per million. Scientist have found that the bees in Brazil accumulate DDT in their bodies to concentrations as high as …read more




