The use of pesticide-treated vegetation as a barrier for control of nuisance and disease-bearing mosquitoes has become an option for mosquito management for home owners and public health and mosquito control professionals. Potted wax myrtle and azalea plants were treated with bifenthrin (0.79% AI) at maximum label rate using backpack and electrostatic sprayers and exposed to various treatments ...

FMC supports science based regulation, using a comprehensive risk assessment approach to ensure our products can be used without causing unreasonable harm to either human health or the environment. FMC appreciates the opportunity to provide comment on the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment's (OEHHA} posting dated September 9, 2016, of the Prioritization 2016: Chemicals ...

Laboratory studies were carried out to compare the toxicity of seven foliar insecticides to four species of adult beneficial insects representing two families of Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae (Aphytis melinus Debach, Eretmocerus eremicus Rose & Zolnerowich, and Encarsiaformosa Gahan) and Mymaridae (Gonatocerus ashmeadi Girault) that attack California red scale, Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell); sweetpo...

Increases in the use and application of pyrethroid insecticides have resulted in concern regarding potential effects on aquatic ecosystems. Methods for the detection of pyrethroids in receiving waters are required to monitor environmental levels of these insecticides. One method employed for the identification of causes of toxicity in aquatic samples is the toxicity identification evaluation (T...

As key pollinators, bees are frequently exposed to multiple environmental stresses and have developed crucial mechanisms by which they adapt these stressors. However, the molecular bases mediated at gene level remain be discovered. Here, we found four heat shock protein DnaJB subfamily genes, DnaJB6 , DnaJshv DnaJB13 DnaJB14 from Apis cerana that all J domains in their sequences. The expression...

There are thousands of adjuvants on the market, yet little is known about their effects on the activity of insecticides on plant surfaces. The effects of 11 selected adjuvants on the rainfastness and retention of bifenthrin ([laJa-(2)-(i-)-(2 methyl[l,l'-biphenyl]-3-yl) methyl 3-(2-chloro-3J,3-trifluoro-l-propenyl)-2~-dimethylcyclopropanearhoxylate) on cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) leaves were...