{"id":5396,"date":"2015-12-03T15:15:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2015-12-03T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:15:42","slug":"permethrin-less-effective-at-warmer-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/12\/permethrin-less-effective-at-warmer-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Permethrin less effective at warmer temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Modern Farmer<\/em> reported this week that recent studies of the effectiveness of permethrin, a pesticide commonly used to combat mosquitoes, is less effective in warmer conditions than expected. \u00a0This has implications for future summers, since trends towards warmer temperatures are likely to make conditions in the Southeast and elsewhere more favorable for longer mosquito seasons than in the past.<\/p>\n<p>If pesticides are less effective at those warmer temperatures, it could lead to increases in mosquitoes and the diseases they carry or increased demands from farmers and public health officials for newer, more effective products. \u00a0You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2015\/12\/climate-change-pesticide-less-effective\/?utm_source=Modern+Farmer+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=a382a2542e-Thursday_December_3_201512_3_2015&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e8a89c7e43-a382a2542e-75518621&amp;mc_cid=a382a2542e&amp;mc_eid=cd66672ffe\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5247\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Anopheles_gambiae_mosquito_feeding_1354.p_lores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5247\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Anopheles_gambiae_mosquito_feeding_1354.p_lores-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Source: James Gathany, CDC\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Anopheles_gambiae_mosquito_feeding_1354.p_lores-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Anopheles_gambiae_mosquito_feeding_1354.p_lores-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Anopheles_gambiae_mosquito_feeding_1354.p_lores.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: James Gathany, CDC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Farmer reported this week that recent studies of the effectiveness of permethrin, a pesticide commonly used to combat mosquitoes, is less effective in warmer conditions than expected. \u00a0This has implications for future summers, since trends towards warmer temperatures are likely to make conditions in the Southeast and elsewhere more favorable for longer mosquito seasons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5397,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}