Changing electrical environments can influence the performance of herbivorous insects and adversely affect their control strategies. The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), is a pest that devastates cruciferous vegetables. An age–stage, two-sex life table P. over multiple generations was established to describe effect varying high-voltage electrostatic field (HVEF) exposure on after age...

همزمان با ورود آفت غیر بومی و مهاجم شب پرة شمشاد Cydalima perspectalis به ایران گزارش آن از مناطق شمالی کشور، فعالیت­های پژوهشی در خصوص راهکارهای کنترل این قبل آلوده نمودن سایر شروع شد. همین راستا، پژوهش حاضر کارایی چند ترکیب حشره‌کش گروه ترکیبات بیولوژیک میکروبی، تنظیم کننده­های رشد گیاهی پره شرایط آزمایشگاهی صحرایی مورد بررسی قرار گرفت. نهایت بر اساس نتایج دست آمده، میان 12 حشره­کش بررسی، آفت...

Quinolactacide isolated from Penicillium citrinum F 1539 was synthesized and evaluated for its insecticidal activities. The key steps of the total synthesis were an acyl migration reaction of the enol ester intermediate and dehydrogenation of tetrahydroquinolactacide with manganese dioxide. The synthesized quinolactacide showed 100% and 42% mortality against the green peach aphid (Myzus persica...

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is widely used to control agricultural and forestry pests, though there are only a few available complete genome sequences of the Bt reference strain. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of B. thuringiensis serovar rongseni reference strain SCG04-02, which is toxic to Plutella xylostella.

In India, the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), is an important pest of cruciferous vegetables and causes severe economic losses. This pest has ability to evolve resistance in laboratory and field to almost all groups of synthetic insecticides. Despite of these, management with synthetic insecticides has been considered to be the easy and favorable option by...

In laboratory experiments we compared the mortality of Plutella xylostella L. eggs induced by six products of trichogrammatid egg parasitoids. Five of the species were commercially available, and the sixth is under development. Each of the six products represented a single species of trichogrammatid (Trichogrammatoidea bactraeNagaraja,Trichogrammapretiosum Riley, T. ostriniae Pan & Chen, T. pla...

The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), is one of the most important pests that has developed high pesticide resistance. The resistances of five Chinese populations of this moth, four resistant strains (from Beijing, Henan, Fujian, and Guangdong) and one susceptible strain, to five pesticides were determined, and the activities of carboxylesterase, glutathione...

The parasitoid, Cotesia plutellae, is used as a biological control agent for diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella, in many countries and has been evaluated as a candidate for release in New Zealand. C. plutellae was originally released in Australia in 1951, but is rarely found. A glasshouse host specificity trial was conducted in Australia to assess whether C. plutellae would parasitise Nyctem...