Wealthier North Carolina neighborhoods may be hotspots for insecticide-resistant tiger mosquitoes

The choices people make to control mosquitoes in their own backyards may be helping some of those mosquitoes survive the very insecticides meant to kill them, according to two new studies from North Carolina State University.

The paper on the emergence and spatial distribution of resistance appears in Parasites & Vectors.

The paper on socioeconomic predictors of resistance appears in Royal Society Open Science. ...