Now I ask, Why would anyone think pesticides wouldn't also harm or even kill humans?
Pests are becoming resistant to pesticides, or pesticides may be killing off the useful and necessary insects.
But pesticides and fertilizers kill these microbes, turning fields into clinically sterile areas.
For the first time, lab tests prove what has long been suspected, that a pesticide used to kill mosquitoes also kill lobsters.
The mice take the cotton to line their nests and the pesticide kills the ticks but not the mice.
Scientists have found both that the pesticides used to ward off mosquitoes can cause health problems in people and kill honeybees and marine life.
Because some pests have systems similar to the human system, some pesticides also can harm or kill humans.
Any standard pesticide sprayed on them during their larval stage will kill them.
The program this afternoon is devoted to raising awareness about how pesticides can injure or kill birds of prey by getting into the food chain.
When people use pesticides to kill insects and other pests, they can also endanger the lives of plants and animals.