Pesticide Treadmill

The pesticide treadmill is a cycle composed of many different factors created by the use of pesticides. These different factors all effect the natural ecosystems of insects and plants on a farm.
One of the first problems with the use of pesticides is that the pests can become resistant to the pesticides. This causes farmers to spray more pesticides more often, which only worsens the problem and causes the pests to become more likely to become resistant. The way this works is that maybe 1 in 200 beetles have a randomly occurring gene which makes them resistant to the pesticide. Therefore when the pesticides are sprayed and all 199 other bugs are killed off the only insects remaining are the ones which are resistant. So the whole next generation of insects are all resistant rendering the pesticide useless. This results in the necessa...