Movento® 240SC and Envidor® are new insecticide derivatives of tetramic acid belonging to a keto-enol pesticide family. However, few studies have reported genotoxic effects in nontarget organisms. In the present study, on Drosophila melanogaster ovaries were analyzed using alkaline comet assay. Simultaneously, we determined LD50 for both insecticides. Virgin females exposed food at three sublet...

Sucking pests of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L), such as thrips, or Thrips tabaci Lindeman, and jassid, Amrasca biguttula Ishida, are among the most threatening insect to young plants in Pakistan. New chemical insecticides have been trialed control their damage commercial fields. Formulations that show good suppression these pest’s populations, while sparing bio-controlling agents, always prefer...

The common pistachio psyllid, Agonoscena pistaciae Burckhardt and Lauterer (Hemiptera: Aphalaridae) is the key pest of pistachio trees in Iran. Nowadays, pistachio growers use detergents widely to control this pest in pistachio orchards. Consequently, the study was carried out to investigate the effects of applying liquid soap (Jonobgan®) 3500 ppm, dishwashing deter...

We now have two consecutive years of yield data following soil fumigation that provided differing volumes of sterilized soil. Tarped methyl bromide at 400 lb/ac provided soil sterilization throughout the surface six feet of soil. Telone II applied in 11 foot wide strips at 50 gallons per acre provided sterilized soil to 4.5 feet deep across half the field surface area. Nine years later the yiel...