Imidacloprid is a widely used pesticide in agriculture for controlling sucking insect pests, as a seed dressing, for soil treatment and as a foliar treatment in a variety of crops and orchards. Imidacloprid undergoes extensive metabolism in plants and forms monohydroxy imidacloprid, imidacloprid guanidine, imidacloprid olefin and a monoglucoside of 6-chloropicolyl alcohol. The majority of toxic...

The house ßy,Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae), continues to be a primary pest of livestock facilities worldwide. This pest also has shown a propensity for pesticide resistance development when under high selection pressures. In this study the house ßy strain FDmwas created by a 20% contribution from each of Þve colonies collected from dairies in Florida with known imidacloprid resistance....

A field experiment was conducted to find out and compare the efficacy of Pyriproxyfen, Nitenpyram, Carbosulfan and Chlorpyrifos against aphid on Brassica juncea variety (Bahawalpur Raya) during Rabi 2016-17 at Regional Agricultural Research Institute, Bahawalpur, Pakistan. After 72 hours of treatment carbosulfan, nitenpyram and pyriproxyfen showed statistically similar results. Aphid population...

Thepotatopsyllid,Bactericera cockerelli(Sulc) (Hemiptera:Triozidae), is a seriouspest of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) that can cause yield loss by direct feeding on crop plants and by vectoring a bacterial pathogen, Candidatus Liberibacer psyllaurous. Current pest management practices rely on the use of insecticides to control the potato psyllid to lower disease incidences and increase yield...

An insect growth regulator, pyriproxyfen, has been used for the control of a range of pest insects, including mosquitoes. Pyriproxyfen is effective in inhibiting adult emergence and sterilizing adult females. The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse), is an important vector of dengue and chikungunya, and is expanding its distribution throughout Europe and the Americas. In the present s...

ELISA techniques were used to detect imidacloprid in guttation fluid of young cantaloupe plants in Arizona. Imidacloprid was detected at up to 4.1 microg/ml (ppm) in a coincidental guttation collection 3 d after a top label rate soil application and at 37 microg/ml one d after a separate top label rate soil application study. These imidacloprid titers exceed reported median oral toxicities for ...

Abstract Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) is an invasive species that causes great damages to many stone and small fruits, resulting in reduced fruit production high economic losses. The concern about this pest has led the research of a wide range possible control methods. However, main strategies are still based insecticide applications. efficacy different insect growth regulators (...

BACKGROUND Attempts to eradicate alien arthropods often require pesticide applications. An effort to remove an alien beetle from Central Park in New York City, USA, resulted in widespread treatments of trees with the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid. Imidacloprid's systemic activity and mode of entry via roots or trunk injections reduce risk of environmental contamination and limit exposu...

The status of damage by vertebrate pests to growing and stored agricultural crops is reviewed in the light of changing patterns of agricultural practice and land use within the UK. Significant problems and existing management techniques are briefly discussed. The results of recent research by the Agricultural Department and Advisory Service (ADAS) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and F...