Arthropod pests are responsible for major crop devastation and are vectors for the transmission of new and re-emerging diseases in humans and livestock. Despite many years of effective control by conventional agrochemical insecticides, a number of factors are threatening the effectiveness and continued use of these agents. These include the development of insecticide resistance and usecancellat...

Dengue Fever (DF) and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) have been the most common urban diseases in Southeast Asia since the 1950s. More recently, the diseases have spread to Central and South America and are now considered as worldwide diseases. Both Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are involved in the transmission of DF/DHF in Southeast Asian region. The paper discusses the present status and...

This work examines the feasibility of liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) time-of-flight (TOF) in conjunction with LC/MSD ion trap to analyze chloronicotinyl insecticides: acetamiprid, imidacloprid, and thiacloprid, in four salad vegetables: tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, and cucumbers. Included in this report are the LC/MSD TOF and LC/MSD Trap spectra of the three chloronicotinyl inse...

while the «classical insecticides» (ddt: dieldrin, malathion, etc.) mainly affect the adult stage of insects, dimilin belongs to a new group of insecticidal compounds that kills the insect in its larval stages, but has no lethal affect on the adult insect. its empirical formula is c14h9h2~f2cl. diflubenzuron is proposed as common name for the trade name dimilin. studies were made on c. pipiens,...

in order to study the residues of phosphorous insecticides in mazandaran district of iran, ethion, azinphosmethyl, diazinon and malathion four most used pesticides were chosen and river water samples were collected in april to sept. 2000, throughout the mazandaran state. thin layer chromatography was used, since it was the best applicable method in area with reasonably high level of sensitivity...