{"id":126793,"date":"2021-08-27T19:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T02:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/we-can-make-powerful-nature-inspired-pesticides-without-poison-scientists-say"},"modified":"2021-08-27T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T02:22:56","slug":"we-can-make-powerful-nature-inspired-pesticides-without-poison-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/we-can-make-powerful-nature-inspired-pesticides-without-poison-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"We Can Make Powerful Nature-Inspired \u2018Pesticides\u2019 Without Poison, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DW7TffJPPUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Using nature against nature.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>While no one enjoys seeing carefully nurtured crops destroyed by hordes of hungry insects, the most common way to prevent it \u2013 the use of insecticides \u2013 is causing massive ecological problems.<\/p>\n<p>Some are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-really-might-be-killing-our-bees-according-to-new-evidence\">wreaking havoc<\/a> on bee populations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/bees-are-being-annihilated-across-brazil-and-the-culprit-is-harming-people-too\">globally<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41893-020-0582-x\">killing birds<\/a> and piling onto the challenges already faced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/apr\/07\/endangered-species-protection-animals-plants-pesticides-epa-insecticides\">endangered species<\/a>. Thankfully, insecticides are generally only in our food at low levels, but they do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/4-myths-about-gmos-everybody-needs-to-stop-believing\">harm humans<\/a> who are highly exposed to them too, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/kale-is-now-one-of-the-most-pesticide-contaminated-vegetables-and-the-dangers-go-beyond-eating-salad\">workers growing our crops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They also destroy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/12\/161207151257.htm\">predatory insect populations<\/a>, which just makes the problem of crop pests worse in the long term \u2014 with fewer pest enemies around to keep their numbers in check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using nature against nature. While no one enjoys seeing carefully nurtured crops destroyed by hordes of hungry insects, the most common way to prevent it \u2013 the use of insecticides \u2013 is causing massive ecological problems. Some are wreaking havoc on bee populations globally, killing birds and piling onto the challenges already faced by endangered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}