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A field trial on a typical market-leading rat snap trap for the control of a Brown rat, Rattus norvegicus, infestation was undertaken. The purpose of the trial was to assess the efficacy of the trap in a rural rat infestation and record observations regarding humaneness. The initial infestation was ...

The Phlebotominae include many genera of blood-feeding (hematophagous) flies, including the primary vectors of leishmaniasis. Species belonging to the genus Phlebotomus are responsible of the transmission of this important parasitic disease in Europe. Leishmaniasis is a zoonotic disease, widely spre...

Pest control strategies would become more effective if semiochemicals (volatile organic signalling compounds) instead of foods were used as lures and bait additives. This is because (1) they can be encapsulated into non-perishable lure products that emit a sustained odour for extended time periods t...

The mosquito species Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1895) has spread rapidly in Europe over the last 40 years and has been established as an invasive species in Germany for the last 15 years. In 2019, individual specimens were found for the first time in the allotments “SÜD I”, “SÜD II” and the adjacent “...

Yamanashi Prefecture, an inland climate mountain area of Japan, extends widely north and south, with altitude that varies greatly by location. Mosquitoes transmitting infectious disease have a diversity of habitats in Yamanashi, and many species can be expected there. However, there have been few re...

Rodentia is the biggest family in the order of Mammalia, with over 40% of the species. The populations of a relatively few species that live in close association with humans sometimes cause economic damage or become threats to the health of humans or domestic animals. A few species of rodents are st...

There are different ways of controlling rats (Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus) and mice (Mus musculus), each with its own advantages and disadvantages. This best practice guide focuses on the animal welfare aspect of the various methods and the integrated approach necessary to achieve animal-fri...

Monitoring of invasive mosquito species in Eastern Croatia, Brod-Posavina County, has been conducted since 2016 as part of the national monitoring of invasive mosquito species in Croatia, with the aim of creating a unique national database to estimate the risk of spreading vector-borne diseases. Thi...

Rats pose a significant problem to society (zoonotic diseases, severe property damage and food loss). The urban environment favors high population density, especially of the Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus). Increasingly high infestation levels are observed, in particular where human presence is high (...

The knowledge about prevalence of different zoonotic bacteria in rodents is a priority in the surveillance systems in public health. Salmonelosis, Campylobacteriosis, or Listeriosis are some of the most important zoonotic diseases. Their presence, prevalence and distribution is a valuable informatio...

Traps need to be highly attractive to the bed bug, Cimex lectularius, to catch them at low population numbers. Typically, traps are manufactured in plastic or cardboard and have an aggregation pheromone incorporated into the design for attraction. Yet, the material of the trap will also influence ho...

Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria are shared between humans and animals but also the intra- and the inter-species exchange of resistance genes are common among bacteria. Multidrug-resistant bacteria have already been identified from sewage samples but there is little data regarding the potential rol...

Rats pose a significant problem to society (zoonoses, severe property damage and food loss). The urban environment favours high population density, especially of the Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus). Due to high food availability and the presence of attractive habitats for rats in urban parks and garde...

Pest identification and monitoring are essential components in an IPM program. In industrial food manufacturing facilities, pest management professionals monitor insect numbers with glue traps using UV- attraction or sex pheromone. Each trap will be collected and closely examined to identify and cou...

In the recent years, different types of sensors have been developed for the automatic categorization of mosquitoes. Most of them have been only tested in laboratory conditions so there is a lack of studies in the field. In this study, a new sensor prototype linked to a mosquito trap was tested in th...

Outdoor areas were monitored for two pestiferous species of yellowjackets, Vespula alascensis Packard and Vespula pensylvanica Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), in southern and northern California. Heptyl butyrate attracted V. acadica (Sladen), V. alascensis, V. atropilosa (Sladen), and V. pensylvan...

The development of an efficient and timely surveillance with accurate alert signals is among the bottlenecks of arboviruses epidemiology. Herein, we report the steps taken to transform an archaic and sectorized structure into a modern and timely surveillance program under the One Health approach to ...

The increasing prevalence of the nuisance pest Ctenolepisma longicaudata has demanded an assessment of the tools for control and elimination that are available to the pest control industry. A single application of a commercially available cockroach bait containing 1% Clothianidin at a dose rate of 0...

Nuisances caused by mosquito biting affect the tourism sector, particularly during high season in Mediterranean locations. One species present in these locations is Aedes mariae , which breeds in rock-pool coastal zones. There is a lack of information available about the ecology of Ae. mariae. The m...

A rodent infestation in a food manufacturing, distribution or retail facility threatens both the integrity and safety of the food supply. The consequences of a rodent infestation in food manufacturing facilities can include failing audits, regulatory fines, product recalls and - in extreme cases - p...

Insecticidal baits are proven effective tactics for domestic cockroach species, but limited information about their use and efficacy exist for outdoor applications targeting peridomestic species. We evaluated three commercial bait products against large populations of Turkestan cockroaches at two pu...

Silverfish (Lepisma saccarinum) are described as a pest to museum and paper objects and mainly occur in damp and humid conditions. They can damage paper, starchy materials, wall paper, but in some cases also insect collections and textiles. The firebrat (Thermobia domesticum) is also described in th...

The diversity and abundance of different blood-sucking insects was studied in the three main cities of the Basque Country region (northern Spain). Sampling took place in one green area and one cemetery from each city, where two CDC-light traps baited with CO2 were placed fortnightly from May to Octo...

Considering the ability of arthropods, to act as vectors of pathogens, an understanding of bacterial species associated with household arthropods and hence their significance to public health is also limited. This study aimed to investigate household arthropods in the United Kingdom, exploring their...

Adult Limnophyes natalensis were collected using sticky and suction light traps during the course of a year in a Japanese food factory. Such physical control methods have been demonstrated effective for collecting adult midges. The numbers of adult L. natalensis collected with the two methods were c...

Spring traps require welfare approval in the UK, but break-back traps, for rats and mice, and mole traps are exempt. Mechanical tests on a wide range of these unregulated traps showed that impact momentum varied 6-8-fold, and clamping force varied 4-5.5-fold, among traps for use with each of rats, m...

The most frequently reported vector-borne diseases in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere are related to ticks, e.g. borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis. In Europe, Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) is the most abundant species infesting a wide range of hosts. Increased public awareness...

The light emitting diode (LED) lamp market is predicted to experience massive growth over the next decade. Outside the domestic lighting sector there are a number of specialist uses for LED technology that have warranted research into specific frequencies of light emission. Ultra-violet (UV-A waveba...

Cereal grains are the major source of food for humans and most domesticated animals. In many developing countries, overall post harvest losses of cereals of between 10–15% are fairly common. The grain weevil, Sitophilus granaries is a pest of wheat, oats, rye, barley, rice and corn. Grain weevils ca...

In recent years we have lost many rodenticide products, and seen increased regulatory restrictions on the way in which remaining products may be used. In the food industry, client-imposed restrictions further limit usage options. House mice (Mus domesticus) remain a major challenge to control, even ...

The occurrence of mosquitoes in Prague sub urban forests, gardens, parks, recreation areas, golf courses etc. was compared between flood and non-flood years. The monitoring was based on mosquito larvae collection and mosquito female catch by CO2 traps. No massive larval populations of the anthropoph...

Cimex lectularius, continues to spread across the world, and developing effective and efficient control and monitoring techniques is the focus of researchers and pest control professionals. In the research presented here, interception devices were implemented as part of a bed bug treatment protocol ...

Monitoring of insect pest activity with the use of sticky blunder traps (sometimes with an attractant) is routinely carried out in the food industry and other businesses. Biscuit beetles (Stegobium paniceum) can be a significant pest but, there have been few commercially available species specific t...

The current urban rodent control servicing model which relies very heavily on baiting with rodenticides is being increasingly challenged, and two studies are reported here that attempt to ‘go back to the basics’ of rodent behavior in order to investigate new avenues for innovation. The ability of se...

Determination of sand flies species is very important especially as vectors for Leishmaniasis in most provinces in Iran. This study was conducted to determine fauna and frequency of sand flies in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province located in southwestern Iran. Sand flies samples were collected from...

From 2014 to 2016, in Moscow, Kaluga region, and Ural (Ekaterinburg) we have been monitored the susceptibility of male German cockroaches to topically applying 1μl insecticides of different structure. It was found that all cockroach populations are most resistant to pyrethroid insecticides, especial...

Cockroaches (Blattodea) are important mechanical vectors for the transmission of many pathogens including bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and viruses, and can contaminate food, water, and affect animals and humans. These pathogens can be carried in different parts of the cockroach body (legs, mouthparts)...

Three commercial rodenticide bait blocks were tested at a confined swine facility in Lafayette, Indiana to compare efficacy for control of the house mouse (Mus Musculus). The three products were Talon® Ultrablok rodenticide (brodifacoum 0.005%), Final® All-Weather Blox™ (brodifacoum 0.005%), and Con...

In the middle of June, 2010, we received the following requests from the manager of a bookstore along an irrigation canal which drew water from the Chikuma River. "During the night, massive flights of aquatic insects are attracted to the lights of my shop.” The abundance of aquatic insects was monit...

In this paper the biological control of biscuit beetle (Stegobium paniceum) and spider beetle (Gibbium psylloides) found in different museums, historic buildings and a monastery library in Austria is described. Six case studies are presented where the insect pest monitoring with sticky blunder traps...

The UK employs a multi-faceted approach to surveillance for invasive Aedes species, including active methods, designed to target particular, potentially higher locations, and passive methods, providing a means for the general public and relevant professional groups to submit mosquito samples for ide...

We investigated the seasonal abundance and flight activity of adult Limnophyes natalensis within a food industry. A total of 43,163 insects were automatically counted with a special light trap during the study period. The automatically counted numbers reflected the abundance of L. natalensis, becaus...

Nagano Prefecture, an inland climate mountain area of Japan, extends widely north and south, and the altitude varies greatly with the location. Mosquitoes transmitting infectious disease have a diversity of habitats in Nagano, and many species can be expected. There have been few reports about mosqu...

Ekomille trap is an electromechanical and ecological system for the capture of mice and rats. The trap is baited with natural foods without any type of toxic bait and it is able to capture over 80 rodents. In the present work are reported results of field trials carried out to evaluate the Ekomille ...

As part of a study investigating experimental insecticide formulations for control of Argentine ants, Linepithema humile (Mayr), in outdoor locations, the imidacloprid-based product Premise 2 (Bayer Environmental Science) was used as a commercial standard. During the study, Premise 2 provided the mo...

Alate ants are being collected in two urban green areas of the city of São Paulo, differing in their distances to natural Atlantic Forest remnants, in order to characterize the species diversity and the importance of urban parks in the maintenance of such diversity. Ants of the genus Camponotus are ...

The control of the German cockroach Blattella germanica is a major challenge for Brazilian pest control operators (PCOs) due to their great capacity for reproduction and dispersal. The study described aimed to evaluate the efficacy of the insecticide Thiamethoxam (Optigard LT® 25% – Wettable Granule...

This paper outlines the current status in Europe of Anobium punctatum and reviews its biology, environmental requirements and food sources. It will also review historic insecticidal treatment methods, their efficacy and the long term problems their residues may cause. It evaluates the efficacy of cu...

Owing to a neglect of mosquito research for several decades, basic data on the occurrence and distribution of mosquitoes are absent for Germany. However, without having available the status quo, it is particularly difficult to detect invasive species and monitor the spread of potential vector specie...

Workers and mainly winged females of Ponerinae ants have been causing painful stings on people in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The species live in small colonies, comprised from a few dozen to a few hundred individuals with monomorphic workers. Ponerinae ants are predators, although some species f...

Dengue virus has been classified as a worldwide emerging disease. South Texas is potentially at risk for dengue virus introduction due to proximity to Mexico, a country with endemic dengue transmission. Previous research has identified two dengue vectors, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in the re...

Man is the main victim of Aedes aegypti. Due to this ecological niche it is one of the most important disease vector to mankind, being, in Brazil, the primary vector of dengue fever. It is found in hot and humid habitat, its development lasts little more than a week, from egg to adult. The only deng...

Commercial ultra violet light traps for flying insect control are commonplace and provide an effective means of monitoring and providing reduction in populations of house flies (Musca domestica L) in cases where exclusion is difficult or impossible. Catch rate investigations were undertaken in labor...

Globalization is a major causal agent for the introduction of exotic species into new territories. In this regard, it is well known that air traffic is an ideal route for the arrival of mosquitoes to new countries and even new continents. In order to evaluate the possible arrival of allochthonous ve...

Mogi Guaçu is a city in southeastern Brazil with 140,000 inhabitants, where the epidemics of dengue are very recent. In 2001 there were only 14 cases, but the incidence increased in the recent years, reaching 566 cases in 2008 and only 21 cases in 2009 (atypical year). The Brateau index for the city...

The concept of “Risk Zones” to evaluate and set priorities for preventing damage to collections across the whole museum has been used as a very useful tool by a number of major museums in London. Pest monitoring using sticky traps is well organised and documented, and many organisations in the UK us...

Leptospirosis is a zoonosis caused by a bacterium of the genus Leptospira in animals and humans; the latter are accidental hosts. A zoonotic disease is transmitted from animal to animal and from animal to man. The city of São Paulo, through the Office of Citizen Service (CAS), has recorded an increa...

Hospitals play an important role within a healthcare setting. The presence of arthropods in hospitals, like spiders, mites, bedbugs, mosquitoes, beetles, cockroaches, flies and ants, was reported in many studies. Besides its great epidemiological relevance, the presence of culicines that are potenti...

The growing urbanization process lead some organisms to rapidly set in the urban environment. These species, called synanthropic, can act as mechanical or biological vectors of microorganisms, and their occurrence represents a serious health risk. In Brazil, ants and cockroaches are the organisms mo...

There has been relatively little research work done in collecting mosquitoes in urban areas of the UK. During the summer of 2010, the research team collected mosquitoes from nine urban sites and mosquito samples were collected over a 14 week period. All specimens were taken to the laboratory and adu...

Dengue has been considered as the most important airborne disease in Brazil. Limitations in the laboratory identification of immature Aedes aegypti and processing of field data based on larval surveys led to the development of the “Intelligent Dengue Monitoring” technology (MI-Dengue) (www.midengue....

Catches of mosquitoes and sand flies in CO2 traps baited with three different lures and an unbaited control were compared. The lures examined were carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide plus 1-octen-3-ol, and carbon dioxide plus human hair in ethanol. Studies using a 4 x 4 Latin square design, with 3 sets o...

raps that use ultraviolet light as an attractant for flies are widely used in urban situations. To determine the differences in trap efficacy from design and lighting, pairs of traps were compared under laboratory conditions. Comparisons were made between traps with open fronts and with traps with r...

Seasonal and annual intensity of foraging pestiferous yellowjackets in California (USA) was determined with wet capture traps using heptyl butyrate (HB) lure. Although 3 species were sympatric at every test site, the most abundant at > 85 to 90% of total was V. pensylvanica (Saussure). There was ...

The introduced ant, Pachycondyla chinensis (Emery) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is a pest in northwestern South Carolina, and areas of North Carolina and Tennessee in the United States. First documented in the United States over 70 years ago, it only recently has achieved pest status. This exotic speci...

A fipronil SC formulation was evaluated against a multi-resistant population of Blattella germanica. The test site was an eight-story apartment building, with 150 individual apartments in Neratovice, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic. Conditions in the apartments included general disorder and an abund...

Chronic cockroach infestations, high cockroach allergen levels, and repeated insecticide use is a serious health concern among low-income residents living in multi-family housing. Surveys in 358 randomly selected apartments in Gary, Indiana in 2006 revealed that 30% of the apartments were infested w...

Several species of mosquitoes are well known to be the serious vectors of epidemic diseases in the world. As a part of the basic survey to watch possible invasion of West Nile virus into Japan, mosquitoes were collected to elucidate their geographic and seasonal distributions in the urban area of Yo...

Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite capable of infecting most warm blooded animals. The parasite can cause spontaneous abortions and foetal abnormalities and induce serious illness in immuno-compromised patients. Humans are intermediate hosts and can become infected via cat faeces. Previous re...

In Austria the research activity for developing alternatives to insecticides controlling mosquito pests is closely related to Usutu-virus (Flaviviridae) epidemics found in 2001. The decision making of those Austrian communities mentioned in this paper is orientated on prevention of the urban inhabit...

We evaluated different traps with non-toxic liquid attractant compositions and surfactants for drowning trapped flying insects. For Drosophila spp. (vinegar fly) in field the most effective bait was: SmartWay Fruit Fly Trap (surface tension 22 mN/m, 100% drowned flies, ICB Pharma) > 960 Vector ( ...

As a result of the rapid rate of urbanization in Botswana, street food vending has become very popular as it supports a large number of the population with affordable, nutritious foods. There has been an associated increase in the number of cockroaches around vending sites in the streets. Cockroache...

Mosquitoes in several species are well known to be serious vectors of epidemic diseases in the world. As a part of the basic survey to watch possible invasion of West Nile virus into Yokohama, one of the city with a big international port in Japan, mosquitoes were collected to elucidate their geogra...

With respect to the technical, executive and ecological problems involved in residual spraying and along with changes occurred in Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Plan in malaria control, in present time, the strategy of using pyrethroid impregnated bed-nets has attracted the attention of the experts of WHO ...

All disasters have an impact on the health sector, whether due to the need to protect the population’s health during emergency situations and disasters. Availability and quality of the health information are very important, because they form the basis for understanding the fundamentals of health pol...

Seasonal activity of adult mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) was studied using CDC light traps baited with CO2 during the period June 2003-June 2004 in Ar Riyadh City (Capital of Saudi Arabia). Four species of mosquitoes were collected; Culex quinquefasciatus Say, Culiseta longiareolata (Macquart), Ae...

Rodents are one of the main health problems in the cities, especially in ports. These animals make economic damages and are potential health dangers in Bandar Abbas, the main economic southern port of Iran. In this study, rodents were captured with live traps using tomato, cucumber and cheese baits ...

This investigation was carried out in several different parts of Iran during 1998-2001. Out of 9799 female Anopheles captured by different methods, An. fluviatilis comprised 35.5%, An. dthali 30.3%, An. stephensi 29.4%, An. sergentii 4.6%, An. culicifacies, An. turkhudi and An. superpictus were 0.2%...

The German cockroach is the most common cockroach found indoors, such as hospitals, homes, restaurants, etc. In hospitals, because of the presence of adequate food and living environment, they can develop into large population and live throughout the buildings. They can contaminate food with differe...

Application of insecticides to vegetation has become increasingly popular in mosquito control programs in recent years. However, there is very little data that addresses the efficacy of such treatments. This study evaluated the residual effectiveness of three pyrethroid formulations on vegetation ag...

This study was carried out to determine the composition, distribution and abundance of arthropod fauna of an urban waste treatment plant near Milan, Italy, in order to identify some potential biological control agents for Diptera Muscidae. For five months, from June to October 2004, the arthropod fa...

A study was conducted in the urban areas of Kuala Lumpur using CDC light trap, dog-baited trap and human landing collection to determine the vectors. Eleven species of mosquitoes were obtained, of which only Aedes albopictus, Armigeres subalbatus and Culex quinquefasciatus were in significant number...

The article reviews insectoacaricidal formulations authorized for use in the Russian Federation during the period of 1992-2004, with a number of conclusions followed from the review. It recorded a stable interest to the containerized aerosols and emulsifiable concentrates, consistent growth of ecolo...

An area-wide management project to control the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki (FST), in the New Orleans French Quarter (FQ) began in1998. Initially, all properties within fifteen square blocks were treated with either commercially available non-repellent termiticides o...

New Zealand has three species of native termites Kalotermes brouni, Stolotermes ruficeps and S. inopinus. In terms of destructive capability, these are of minor significance. Invasive Australian subterranean termites, specifically Coptotermes acinaciformis and C. frenchii hitchhiked into New Zealand...

Insect light traps are an important aspect of modern fly control in commercial food handling establishments. Many design factors of light traps are evaluated in a paired laboratory testing method. The influence variables have on the results of paired laboratory testing methods is evaluated to illust...

German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.), catch by five types of traps and modifications of each for a total of 15 different treatments, were tested under controlled laboratory conditions. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used to detect differences among traps. The response variables...

In the area of Lake Suwa in central Japan, massive swarms of chironomid midges have repeatedly caused problems for local residents. Until now, light has been used as the customary countermeasure against chironomids wherever they occur, e.g., around natural lakes. In recent years, large numbers of sw...

Stinging insects are among the most frequent and persistent pest problems at schools, parks, and similar locations. Responses for control are usually reactive and involve pesticides. During the past two years, IPM specialists from the New York State Community IPM Program and Cornell Cooperative Exte...

The synthetic stored product insect pheromones have been used effectively for monitoring insects in food processing plants, warehouses, and grain storage facilities. It is a highly effective tool for early detection of insect infestation. However, the pheromone monitoring in these places induces ins...

Evaluations were made of Bayer Compound PNR342 imidacloprid granular bait at 0.5% a.i., as compared to methomyl (Golden Malrin) granular bait for control of the house fly, Musca domestica L. Studies conducted included a laboratory caged study, bait trap evaluations in a commercial egglayer poultry f...

Field trials involving seventy rural households from three villages in Mozambique were established to test whether intensive daily trapping inside household-level food stores could effectively reduce rodent pest populations. The main species caught inside dwellings where food was stored were Rattus ...

The basic principles of olfaction in mosquito-host interaction is presented using Aedes aegypti. Olfactometer bioassays investigated which compounds of the complex blend of human emanations play a role in the attraction, and which factors make some hosts more attractive than others. Beside L-(+)-lac...

CDC traps are employed as an efficient tool in monitoring mosquito population changes, evaluation of climatic and human made changes on species abundance and composition as well as for estimation of success of control programs. Despite the great advantage in labor saving and sampling the species whi...

The Pantry PatrolÔ is a new trapping system for use by professional pest managers and for introduction into the domestic market. Sex pheromones for Plodia interpunctella, Ephestia kuehniella, E. cautella, Lasioderma serricorne, Trogoderma variabile, and T. granarium and aggregation pheromones for th...

Rapid detection of American cockroaches by traps baited with Periplanone B, a synthetic sex pheromone of the American cockroach, was conducted in three sub-tropical cities, Okinawa (Japan), Taipei (Taiwan), and Honolulu (USA), and in a laboratory in Shizuoka, Japan. One night trapping with Periplano...

The present investigation demonstrates the effect of a single treatment with a chitin synthesis inhibitor (lufenuron) on small, medium and large nymphs as well as adults of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.). The trial was conducted as a long-term field study in three mass food producing...

Two Navy surplus barges (each 91 x 20 ft) were equipped with one street lamp at each corner of the barge and with fourteen 60 x 80 inches white cloth panels, each panel illuminated with one 100W spotlight. Adult midge attraction to light on these barges was studied in the summer of 1998 on Lake Monr...

We evaluated the efficacy of the toxic (methomyl) baits with a sex pheromone, (Z)-9-tricosene, in controlling adults of the house fly, Musca domestica (L.). The poison bait was distributed on the carton Tables “Zwalcza muchy” in a form of color pattern and prints. Each table contained a shelf to col...

House flies Musca domestica (L.) are a nuisance to humans and animals and are potential vectors of pathogens. One of the methods to control flies is using attractive odours to lure them to a trap (Cossé and Baker, 1996). However, existing commercially available baits showed variable results (Browne,...

Increasing concerns about the presence of storage mites in food, and their medical importance in domestic and occupational environments, have been addressed by the development at this laboratory of two new techniques. This poster outlines these techniques and presents examples of results obtained wh...

Cockroaches could represent one of the most important hygienic problems, since they can contaminate food with bacteria, transmit diseases and cause human allergies. For this reason, urban governments and food industries devote part of their balance to cover the cost of their control. One of the firs...

An experimental 2.15% imidacloprid-based gel bait containing »44% water was evaluated in laboratory and field studies against the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.). In continuous exposure tests, toxicity and presumably bait consumption varied with cockroach stage, deprivation of competitive...

The application of conventional insecticides within the confines of a secure establishment in a safe manner can cause many logistical and managerial problems. Therefore, alternative methods of insecticide applications have to be sought. The advent of insecticidal gels with varying modes of action gi...

Lithium perfluorooctanesulfonate (LPOS, proposed common name SulfotineTM) is an isomeric mixture containing approximately 70% of the linear isomer and 30% branched isomers. Molecular formula for LPOS is C8F17LiO3S, and acute oral LD50 is greater than 5,000 mg/kg. LPOS exhibits promising oral toxicit...

Some strains of the hyphomycete fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae, are highly virulent for various species of Australian termites. One of these, FI-610, has been selected for control of Coptotermes spp. and Nasutitermes exitiosus, and shown to kill mound and tree nests when sufficient dry conidia are a...

The aim of our investigation was to find out if predacious beetles are applicable for biological control of some soil pests in urban environment in Siberia. During the years 1992-1997 the distribution of epigeic and soil-inhabiting beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Staphylinidae) , their biology and r...

Imidacloprid belongs to a new group of insecticides, the chlorinated nicotine derivatives. It has been shown to have activity against a range of pests including termites, aphids, fleas, beetles and thrips. A gel formulation has been developed for use against cockroaches and this study examined the e...

The regular and effective control of some synanthropic crawling insects as cockroaches and ants is unavoidable but due to the requirements of human health and environment protection, their elimination needs new concepts and methods. Cockroaches, first of all the German cockroach Blattella germanica ...

Vespine wasps forage routinely collecting wood fibres for nest construction, insects/insect larvae for protein and also for sources of carbohydrate. It has been suggested widely that, as the nest begins to age, wasps may be found to forage more aggressively for carbohydrate, becoming a nuisance to h...

Trapping and monitoring experiments were conducted in the roof spaces of four buildings infested with deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum de Geer (Coleoptera: Anobiidae). Data from sticky traps and an ultra-violet insectocutor showed that adult deathwatch beetles were trapped during the months...

Necrophagy was shown to provide efficient transfer of fipronil toxicity from poisoned oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis(L.)) cadavers to groups of untreated cockroaches in laboratory experiments. Adult females poisoned with Goliath gel deposits of 0.1 - 40 mg 0.05% w/w a.i. formulation were indi...

The French Quarter of New Orleans is the site for a new national campaign against the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus, an exotic species that now infests 13 states. The campaign includes the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, the Louisiana State Uni...

Preliminary studies in experimental structures at Agricultural Research Service in Gainesville resulted in the development of a rabbit-anti-cockroach polyclonal ELISA inhibition system for assessing spatial distribution of cockroach antigens for subsequent mitigation interventions. The system was te...

Cockroaches settling down in various sanitary trade institutions, industrial establishments as well as in residential buildings may spread potential infectious diseases and allergy or - through their disgust provoking effect - may disturb people living or working there. As a consequence, regular con...

Four simulated domestic environments were each infested with mixed populations (3,300 insects) of German cockroaches (Blattella germanica). The simulated domestic environments (containers) were maintained at 25°C and 45% r.h. and cockroaches were fed and watered ad lib. After an acclimation period o...

The control of a population of Australian cockroaches, Periplaneta australasiae, causing serious damage to valuable plant species in a UK tropical plant house, was attempted using a combination of trapping and spraying with an insect growth regulator. After determining the degree and extent of infes...

Woodworm or furniture beetle Anobium punctatum can cause serious damage to wooden objects and the structural timber in buildings. In the light of recent evidence of the reduced incidence of this pest in museum objects and in buildings it is timely to re-examine the need for chemical treatments and a...

Five representative types of bakeries were surveyed in the city of Riyadh, K.S.A. to ascertain pest situations and various schemes on pest control management. The principal pests include stored product pests (e.g., Tribolium confusum Duval, Tribolium castaneum (Hbst.), Mus musculus and Rattus rattus...

Webbing clothes moth, Tineola bisselliella, is a world-wide pest of clothing and textiles in domestic environments and also causes serious damage to textiles and ethnographic material in museum collections. Monitoring traps are an important component of pest control programmes but sticky traps witho...

Chronic, unacceptable, insecticide resistant German cockroach (Elartella germanica) populations exist in some of the U.S. Army's food service facilities We have conducted field trials using heat to control German cockroaches in food service facilities. The process used involved: caulking holes in wa...

Determining termiticide performance has, historically, been conducted by assessing attack of wooden boards placed over treated soil. This method was developed by the USDA-FS Gulfport laboratory, and is referred to as the ground-board test. A modification of this involves pouring concrete over the tr...

Field and laboratory studies were initiated in 1993 to investigate the effect(s) of specific insecticide use strategies on resistant populations of German cockroach, Blattella germanica. Infestation levels were monitored using sticky traps, and these data formed the basis for the estimates of treatm...

The Chitin Synthesis Inhibitor, triflumuron, has great potential for the control of German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L). Field trails were carried out to evaluate its efficacy in combination with a short residual, conventional, insecticide DDVP, and when used alone. The insecticides were appli...

During the first two days of laboratory trials, catches on sticky traps (Ekolex-V) of the German cockroach (Blarrella germmica) were higher than those of subsequent days. In the case of sexed groups of adults, catches of the first and second days ranged from 14.2 to 28.3%. Consecutive daily catches ...

Pest control treatments in museums, galleries and historic collections have traditionally been reactive, in response to damage or insect pests being found. Where control treatments or prophylactic measures are taken the pesticides, adjuvants and caniers can themselves be damaging to historic materia...

Commercial formulations of avermectin based baits were evaluated in laboratory and field studies against the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.). In continuous exposure tests with adult males, LT50s ranged from ca. 2.5 to >200d for Roach Ender and an experimental aerosol gel formulation, r...

The activities of released German cockroaches in a vacant wooden house were investigated. Migrations to rooms away from the release point were infrequent and most cockroaches remained near the release point. Populations of cockroaches which became established in rooms, increased in summer but decrea...

Pheromone usage in Urban and Stored Products Entomology has been confined predominantly to insect pest monitoring to date and only in a few cases have pheromones been used for direct population suppression. Thls paper reviews the advances that have been made over recent years in the use of pheromone...

Two mixed-age (semi-natural) populations of the Oriental cockroach Blatta orientalis were established in identical artificial domestic environments contained in steel freight containers. Each population was allowed a 10 week period of acclimation, during which the populations were monitored using Ro...

A population of the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, detected in February 1992, was determined to be well established within a limited residential area of La Mesa, San Diego County, California, U.S.A. The large size of workers and soldiers, and annual swarms of reproduc...

Small groups of nymphs and adults, or of 5th and 6th instar nymphs of the Oriental cockroach Blatta orientalis, were exposed to hydramethylnon baits Maxforce) for periods of time ranging from 1 to 14 days. These insects were also given access to standard laboratory cockroach food as an alternative t...

Observations of the nocturnal behaviour of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, were carried out using single or mixed populations of males, gravid females, ungravid females and nymphs. The results of these studies can be summarised as follows: 1. The proportion of cockroaches present in a fee...

German cockroach (Blattella germanica) control treatment history has rarely been accompanied by resistance monitoring in the field. Consequently, while cockroach 'resistance', receives much publicity, it is a fact that, to date, only a handful of complaints that are due to pyrethroid resistance, hav...