Fifteen-year-old Brandon Spurling plunged a death's head cockroach into a glass of ice water to anesthetize it before performing surgery on the bug. His goal was to take over the insect by using a ...

DDT is regarded as a nerve poison in insects and mammals chiefly from the symptomological, electrophysiological and biochemical points of view 1,2. The actual mechanism of DDT poisoning at the target, ...