toxicity of spinosad was primarily evaluated with three bioassay methods: feeding, spraying (residual exposure) and combination with larval medium against one susceptible and one field population. feeding method was selected as efficient method for survey of susceptibility or resistance of seven field populations. in feeding bioassay method, spinosad ld50 of susceptible strain at 24h and 72h we...

control of insect pests of agriculture, economic, and medical importance usually focuses on the use of insecticides. the susceptibility levels of eleven strains of german cockroaches, blattella germanica (l.), were compared with a standard susceptible strain against permethrin and fipronil. the strains were collected from nine infested students’ dormitories and two infested hospitals in tehran,...

reactions of 20 cucumber cultivars, tested to fusarium stem and root rot disease, have ranged from susceptible to tolerant. the most susceptible cultivars were 8-ayat, 32-pv, cb- 61688222, janette, nasco, negeen, nicoo 100, psr36-47112, rubah-l, rubah-s and sultan and tolerant cultivars were 120118, ayat, jakie, fd-c101, festival, khassib, psr 36-45007, sr36-45664 and storm. between these culti...

two strains of anopheles atroparvus, one resistant and another sceptible to ddt and two of anopheles stephensi, one resistant and one susceptible to ddt were tested for their irritability to ddt. various laboratory investigations of the effects of insecticides on mosquito behavior and their irritability were carried out. in these series of experiments a comparison was made between the results o...