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The control mosquito populations in Brazil is needed to prevent disease transmission and nuisance to man, and avoid causing deaths and economic losses.
Cintia Granzotti da Silva Scudeler +6 more
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Assessing the long-distance repellency of long-lasting insecticide netting to a suite of post-harvest insects [PDF]
Insects are our main competitors for food on the planet (1). In fact, growers lose 10-30% of crops during storage, processing, and marketing after harvest each year to stored product insects (2,3).
Alonso, Alicia Amairani +2 more
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Experimental evolution reveals high insecticide tolerance in Daphnia inhabiting farmland ponds [PDF]
Exposure of nontarget populations to agricultural chemicals is an important aspect of global change. We quantified the capacity of natural Daphnia magna populations to locally adapt to insecticide exposure through a selection experiment involving ...
Agra +36 more
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Insecticide‐treated nets for preventing malaria
Background A previous version of this Cochrane Review identified that insecticide‐treated nets (ITNs) are effective at reducing child mortality, parasite prevalence, and uncomplicated and severe malaria episodes.
Josephine Pryce +2 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
In July 2019, the European Commission asked EFSA to provide a statement on the available outcomes of the human health assessment in the context of the pesticides peer review for the renewal of approval of the active substance chlorpyrifos conducted in ...
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Xinjiang (XJ) and Ningxia (NX) provinces are important agricultural regions in western China. Aphids are one kind of the most devastating pests in both the provinces. Aphids are typical phloem-feeding insects distributed worldwide and can severely damage
Haifeng Gao +8 more
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The genetic basis of host preference and resting behavior in the major African malaria vector, Anopheles arabiensis [PDF]
Malaria transmission is dependent on the propensity of Anopheles mosquitoes to bite humans (anthropophily) instead of other dead end hosts. Recent increases in the usage of Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINs) in Africa have been associated ...
Collier, T. J. +12 more
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Sublethal effects of some botanical and chemical insecticides on the cotton whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Hem: Aleyrodidae) [PDF]
In addition to direct mortalities caused by acute concentrations of insecticides, some biological traits of target pests may be also affected by sublethal doses.
Fatemeh Jafarbeigi +2 more
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According to Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, EFSA has reviewed the maximum residue levels (MRLs) currently established at European level for the pesticide active substance spiromesifen.
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) +30 more
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Accidental organophosphate poisoning: A case series of 2 pediatric coumaphos exposures
Introduction Pediatric organophosphate insecticide poisonings are rare in the United States, and life‐threatening toxicity is rarely seen. We report 2 accidental ingestions of the organophosphate insecticide coumaphos that resulted in life‐threatening ...
Justin A. Seltzer +12 more
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