Dichlorvos-impregnated resin strips (DDVP pest strips) are among the few organophosphate products still available for indoor residential use. The residential uses for most other organophosphate products, including most DDVP products, were canceled because they posed unreasonable risks to children. DDVP pest strips act by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase activity in the brain and nerves of insect...

Phytosanitary agencies conduct plant biosecurity activities, including early detection of potential introduction pathways, to improve control and eradication of pest and pathogen incursions. For such actions, analytical tools based on solid scientific knowledge regarding plant-pest or pathogen relationships for pest risk assessment are needed. Recent evidence indicating that closely related spe...

Food security is threatened by newly emerging pests with increased invasive potential accelerated through globalization. The Neotropical jumping plant louse Russelliana solanicola Tuthill is currently a localized potato pest and probable vector of plant pathogens. It is an unusually polyphagous species and is widely distributed in and along the Andes. To date, introductions have been detected i...

Current reactive pest management methods have serious drawbacks such as the heavy reliance on chemicals, emerging genetic rodenticide resistance and high secondary exposure risks. Rodent control needs to be based on pest species ecology and ethology to facilitate the development of ecologically based rodent management (EBRM). An important aspect of EBRM is a strong understanding of rodent pest ...

An investigation on the insects in the jujube ecosystem in Taigu District of Shanxi Province, Northern China showed that more species and individual numbers of pest, predatory and neutral insects were found on the tree than on the ground. The ratio of the species and individual numbers of predatory and neutral insects to those of pest insects fluctuated from year to year. Homoptera, Coleoptera ...

s in Resistance Management Reproduction and Life Span in House Fly Strains with Different Displacement of Reproductive Efforts – G. V. Benkovskaya, Y. M. Nikonomv and R. S. Mustafina ___________ 21 Fall 2011 Resistant Pest Management Newsletter Vol. 21, No. 1 2 Resistance Management from Around the Globe CHOOSING PREDATORS FOR BIOCONTROL OF COLORADO POTATO BEETLE IN

Subsoiling is becoming a standard practice to alleviate detrimental soil compaction following biomass harvesting in eastside pine and mixed conifer forests in California. Compaction of soil following the harvesting can be detrimental to growth of residuals, to establishment of natural regeneration, and may change long term soil productivity. The short and long term effects of this subsoiling pr...

As with other insects, resistance to insecticides has become a limiting factor in the use of insecticides to control mosquitoes. Mosquito control depended on the use of insecticides for a long time (initially organochlorines, followed by organophosphates, carbamates and pyrethroids). This study aimed to determine the susceptibility of Anopheles arabiensis adult to the public health and agricult...

Given the development of nanotechnology within numerous scientific disciplines, it is likely that nanoscale products have been and will be used for agricultural, vector, and urban pest control prior to a complete evaluation of exposure and risk. Significant differences may exist between nanotechnology-based pesticides (NBPs) and conventional pesticides, primarily due to size and surface charact...

There are 10 major arthropod pest species affecting dairy cattle including six fly and four louse species. Damage inflicted by arthropods falls into two categories: direct damage and indirect damage. Direct damage includes blood loss, introduction of salivary secretions, tissue damage, reduced value of saleable animal products, and annoyance. Indirect damage includes transferring pathogenic org...