TY  - CHAP
AU  - Maureen Leyva
AU  - Olinka Tiomno
AU  - Juan E. Tacoronte
AU  - Maria del Carmen Marquetti
AU  - Domingo Montada
ED  - Farzana Perveen
Y1  - 2012-02-15
PY  - 2012
T1  - Essential Plant Oils and Insecticidal Activity in Culex quinquefasciatus
N2  - This book is compiled of 24 Chapters divided into 4 Sections. Section A focuses on toxicity of organic and inorganic insecticides, organophosphorus insecticides, toxicity of fenitrothion and permethrin, and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). Section B is dedicated to vector control using insecticides, biological control of mosquito larvae by Bacillus thuringiensis, metabolism of pyrethroids by mosquito cytochrome P40 susceptibility status of Aedes aegypti, etc. Section C describes bioactive natural products from sapindacea, management of potato pests, flower thrips, mango mealy bug, pear psylla, grapes pests, small fruit production, boll weevil and tsetse fly using insecticides. Section D provides information on insecticide resistance in natural population of malaria vector, role of Anopheles gambiae P450 cytochrome, genetic toxicological profile of carbofuran and pirimicarp carbamic insecticides, etc. The subject matter in this book should attract the reader's concern to support rational decisions regarding the use of pesticides.
BT  - Insecticides
SP  - Ch. 10
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/27818
DO  - 10.5772/27818
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-19
ER  -