In a world saturated by toxic substances, the plight of exposed populations has figured prominently in transdisciplinary body work that we call political ecologies toxics. This has, turn, sparked concerns about unintended consequences what Eve Tuck calls “damage-centered research,” which can magnify very harms it seeks to mitigate. Here, examine ecologists have done address these concerns. Begi...

Insecticide resistance to the microbial insecticides Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (Bti) and Bacillus sphaericus (Bs) represents a serious threat to their success. Available evidence indicates that the risk for resistance to Bti is low due to the makeup of its parasporal crystal, which contains Cyt1A, Cry4A, Cry4B, and Cry11A toxic proteins. Disrupting the toxin complex in Bti enabl...

We studied the cross-resistance to three highly toxic Bacillus sphaericus strains, IAB-59 (serotype H6), IAB-881 (serotype H3), and IAB-872 (serotype H48), of four colonies of the Culex pipiens complex resistant to B. sphaericus 2362 and 1593, both of which are serotype H5a5b strains. Two field-selected highly resistant colonies originating from India (KOCHI, 17,000-fold resistance) and France ...

We examined whether populations of Drosophila melanogaster could evolve a genetically based tolerance to high levels of toxic compounds (urea or ammonia) added to their larval food medium. We also examined whether tolerance to one compound may impart cross-tolerance to other compounds. Five populations selected for ammonia tolerance (AX), five populations selected for urea tolerance (UX), and f...