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To: gd124

Source on that if you have one? As I read it, DDT is the ultimate insecticide and nothing ever really became resistant to it despite massive usage.


11 posted on 09/19/2010 5:04:46 AM PDT by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946

I believe bedbugs were the exception to the general lack of resistance to DDT, http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3954/1523-5475-25.1.41 that’s one recent study showing that owing to the high levels of resistance, DDT was the least effective at killing bedbugs of 12 insecticides tested.


13 posted on 09/19/2010 5:07:45 AM PDT by gd124
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