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We record leaf litter ant species richness along a latitudinal gradient in the Atlantic Forest based on systematic surveys in 26 regularly spaced localities, covering almost 20o of latitude, and use this information to describe the response of different leaf-litter ant functional groups to the gradi...

About 25% of mammal species in Brazil belong to Order Chiroptera. There are 174 described species. Bats present important functions within ecosystems, as pollination, seed dispersal and the population control of insects. The habitat fragmentation process, characterized by the continuing decline of n...

Port health authorities have played an important role in the control of infectious diseases. The International Health Regulations (2005) further clarifies this role and provides a legal statutory instrument which aims to assist the international community to prevent and respond to global public heal...

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...

Altriset™ (18.4% SC, Chlorantraniliprole) exhibited delayed mortality in termites both in topical and limited exposure bioassays. When exposed for as low as 5 minutes on sand treated at =25 ppm, worker mortalities reached >90% by day 5. Termites behaved normally (walking, grooming etc.) for sever...

Chlorantraniliprole is a new insecticide globally branded as DuPont™ Altriset™ for termite control. Field results from the USA, Japan and Australian in pre-construction (horizontal applications) and postconstruction (vertical applications) at the 0.05% rate showed excellent efficacy. Field results f...

Standardized test methods by which the efficacies of conventional chemical wood preservatives against insects determine their toxic effects against larvae of wood boring beetles or their feeding prevention by termites. Although alternative control strategies to the application of biocides exist, suc...

Brazil occupies nearly half of South America and is the fifth largest country in the world by geographical area. Brazil’s biodiversity reserves are the greatest in the world and urban pest diversity is not any different. It is estimated that 85 percent of the inhabitants in the country live in urban...

This paper discusses the challenges of the control of dengue and yellow fever in Brazil. Yellow fever, a vaccine preventable disease, has re-emerged in its sylvatic cycle, in regions of Brazil that were free of transmission for more than 60 years. Severe adverse events following vaccination limit th...

Cost effective methods are now available to identify physiological resistance in wild populations of Norway rat and House mice that are proving difficult to control. The new molecular methodology is a significant development for resistance management.

Ants are social insects that can be found almost in every terrestrial environment around the world. As in natural environment, the artificial environments are excellent places to install nests, but when installed in human habitations they are considered urban pests, because of the inconvenience caus...

Agriculture in tropical regions has been associated with the rapid expansion of leaf-cutting ants in clearings since an initial report in 1587. Numerous studies document higher population densities in human-simplified habitats than in natural ones, usually producing economical losses in agricultural...

Solenopsis species have a worldwide distribution; some species of the S. saevissima species group, native from South America and popularly known as fire ants, had been introduced accidentally in several countries worldwide. This species group is widely distributed in Brazil, including in urban areas...

The Argentine ant is a major household pest worldwide and efforts to control it usually involve the use of slow acting insecticides contained in baits, composed of either liquid sugar solutions or solid protein particles. A common toxicant used in commercial baits has been boron, either as borax (so...

The ant species Pheidole susannae Forel 1886 is native to Central America, its distribution range goes from southern Mexico to northern South America, and it is present in Colombia and Venezuela. Occurs in various habitats, including highly disturbed areas (city parks), seasonal dry forest, mature l...

The fire-ants are widely distributed in Brazil, including urban areas, but few studies are found in this country. The Solenopsis saevissima species-group encompasses ecologically and economically important ants, and has the largest number of species of the genus Solenopsis. In Brazil, the main speci...

Previous studies published in 2005 and 2006 about the inventory of urban ants in warm areas of Colombia (24°C, 70% relative humidity, 1000 meters above sea level), included four unidentified species of the genus Pheidole, which contributed with a frequency of 11.7%. Only two exotic species showed hi...

We followed the distribution of Linepithema humile colonies over three years in a natural area of the University of Buenos Aires Campus, within the city of Buenos Aires. We determined the extent of multi-nest colonies by means of aggression tests. Colonies involved several nests up to four to five h...

The urban environment provides conditions for the establishment and spread of some species of ants, known as tramp ant species. They can occur in many environments, including hospitals, industrial and domestic kitchens, acting as carriers of pathogenic organisms. The most effective method of control...

Baits (station, granule, gel and liquid) are widely used in the control of ant pests because of their effectiveness, ease of application, and their reduced risk to people, pets and the environment. Among the types of baits, gel baits are the most popular bait type for ant control. However, after app...

Arachnids are successful groups with a lifestyle based on predation, especially insects. The spiders have a body divided in two segments, the cephalothorax and abdomen, have four pairs of legs, chelicerae and pedipalps. The Loxosceles spiders occur throughout the world, in Brazil were recorded eight...

The presence of Tityus serrulatus scorpion in an urban environment presents a threat to the population, correlated to high population density and reflected on registered accidents. In difficult access areas as drainpipe and sewage system pulverization techniques has shown undesirable results. We pro...

In Brazil there are three types of spiders of medical importance, Phoneutria sp. (Araneae: Ctenidae), Loxosceles sp. (Araneae: Sicariidae) and Latrodectus sp. (Araneae: Theridiidae). The accidents are characterized as follows: accidents by Phoneutria sp. - represent a form of araneism most commonly ...

Manufacturers that discover and develop active ingredients for the urban pest management market are generally agricultural chemicals companies. As the agricultural chemical industry has expanded into seeds and biotechnology, existing challenges in funding urban pest management research and developme...

The objective of this study was to investigate the geographical distribution of ticks in the Boyerahmad city. Survey occurred in the 1/10 of villages in the city from animal shelters, fowl nests, animal bodies and households. Ticks were collected in different seasons. It was collected 2,173 ticks (s...

The most common species of bed bugs in the world is Cimex lectularius Linnaeus, 1758. This species prefers to feed on human blood and causes several health effects like skins rashes, psychological effects and allergic symptoms. In the developed world bed bugs were largely eradicated as pests in the ...

The bed bug Cimex lectularius L. is blood-feeding parasite of humans, bats and different domestic animals. In the early 1990s, pest management professionals began to see an increase in beg bug infestations across the world. Now the bed bug problem is very important in many countries, however, in Rus...

Blattella germanica is considered one of the main pests found in commercial shops mainly foodstuff. Excessive use of insecticides, flaws in the applications of pyrethroid group insecticides, and failure on rotation of chemical groups, result in selection of resistant cockroaches populations, which i...

The German cockroach (Blattella germanica) is host for several parasites. Due to the high population density in laboratory cultures of cockroaches, transmission rates of parasites as well as parasite prevalence can also be high. Cockroaches are important test organisms for efficacy testing of insect...

Blattella germanica is one of the most important urban pests in households, restaurants, storehouses, hospitals, supermarkets and food industries. The aim of this work was to evaluate lambdacyhalothrin residual (dose of 2,5mL/L water- Demand 10 CS) on surfaces of tiles, polished green slates and cem...

The cockroach Blattela germanica (L. 1767) is the most important synanthropic specie to develop high populations in habitations. This study has evaluated the mortality of B. germanica exposed to different treated areas in equivalent amount of insecticides to verify the mortality caused by pesticides...

Periplaneta americana is broadly accepted as the major insect pest in the sewage systems of Spain. The environmental conditions of our country, especially in eastern and southern regions, let the populations of this insect develop to enormous numbers with the risk to become a sanitary problem. Commo...

Gel baits are easy to incorporate in pest management programs because they present properties like low toxicity, less environmental risk than sprays, easy handling and proved effectivity. Active ingredients, Fipronil and Imidacloprid, act through ingestion and contact as neurotoxics. Fipronil, a phe...

The Asian cockroach, Blattella asahinai (Mizukubo) was first described in 1981 from Okinawa, Japan (Mizukubo, 1981), and introduced into the state of Florida, USA in 1986. By 2007 B. asahinai was established in the states of Alabama, Georgia and Texas, USA. B. asahinai is a peridomestic pest which b...

Keratophagous moths don’t have the medical or epidemiological significance, but in the urban environment they occupy specific niche as synanthropic arthropod pests. Nearly 30 species of keratophagous moths can be found out on the territory of Russian Federation. Our most common pest species is the w...

Optimisation of performance of dry flowable powder formulations for control of crawling insect pests is known to involve control of particle size and effective distribution of active ingredient. Enhanced pick-up by the insect cuticle has been demonstrated through use of powder bearing an electrostat...

The housefly, Musca domestica L., is a synanthropic, endophilous, cosmopolitan fly, which has a propensity to breed in faecal matter, moves indiscriminately from filth to food and harbours pathogenic bacteria obtained from various unsanitary sources. M. domestica has been implicated in the transmiss...

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...

This present study focused on the Municipal Program of Culex Control at the Pinheiros River and the new methods used for surveillance and control of this mosquito. This river has 54 km of banks and its polluted and stagnant water allows great proliferation of Culex quinquefasciatus. This mosquito is...

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...

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...

Effective mosquito management in urban and periurban environments is reliant in large part on larvicide applications to artificial and/or natural breeding areas. However, larvicide application is often too costly to implement in mosquito abatement programs in areas with high extensions of breeding s...

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...

For indoor control of Rattus rattus it is recommended the use of rodenticide baits formulated as pellets containing different active ingredients, among which, the bromadiolone. In practice, the packs containing pellet formulations are partially opened and placed in the indoor buildings until their i...

Rodent control in São Paulo involves rodenticide applications, including bromadiolone formulated as paraffin block used in culverts to Rattus norvegicus control. After application, the blocks are subject to environmental conditions that may change its appearance and bromadiolone concentration. This ...

Aiming at determining the population of rodents before and after the chemical treatment promoted by the City Hall of the city of São Paulo, the prevalent species, development phase and sexual ratio were recorded. Also the presence of ectoparasites and the isolation of zoonosis agents, with an emphas...

In order to understand the characteristics of the termite infestation and suggest management measures aiming to their control, inspection in 53 households in a residential condominium located in the Ecological Park of Serra do Guararú (Rainforest), in Guarujá, Brazil was held in October 2010. Curren...

The global climate is under control of factors having both earth and space origin. Global warming took place from XVII century till 1997. Then global cold snap began. It was accompanied by increase of weather instability. This dynamics had effect on global distribution of some animals including term...

Little is known on the urban termites from the Central-Eastern Brazil. In order to report the most common termite genera, the city of Cuiabá, in the State of Mato Grosso was surveyed. Four neighborhoods were chosen along a Pest Control Company which noticed a high number of calls for termite control...

Unfamiliarity on the biology and behavior of termites and wood borers may end in legal courts. In order to understand the troubles caused by such unknowns, we conducted consultations in law libraries, among consumer defenders and at the website of Justice Court from the state of São Paulo. Also info...

Subterranean termites are widely known by their substantial damage in urban areas. Coptotermes gestroi is an alien species originated from Asia, introduced accidently in Brazil, where is responsible for severe economical impact. To reduce the use of insecticides in the termite management, some resea...

Nasutitermes corniger (Motschulsky) show attractiveness for specific woods, but it is unknown whether this attractiveness may be altered by wood decomposition process. This study analized the foraging behavior of N. corniger when decayed woods in different stages are offered to termites nest. Wood s...

Heterotermes convexinotatus (Snyder 1924) belongs to the group of subterranean termites, it is regarded as an important pest in passion fruit and corn crops in Venezuela and Colombia, it has also been found in Citrus orchards at the Caribbean coast of Colombia. In urban zones it had only been report...

Many species of termites have increased their range to urban areas where wood is used as building material for houses, buildings and furniture, therefore, have been considered urban pests. In Colombia, the fauna and problems caused by termites are virtually unknown. There are few reports on inventor...

The xylophagous insects attack all kind of cellulosic materials such as wood, furniture, books, papers and clothes. There are several xylophogous insect species, but termites (Isoptera) and beetles (Coleoptera) are the most important economically. The objective of this study was to survey the specie...

The objective of this report was to evaluate the integrated termite control with different insecticides chemistry and formulations. It was done a complete survey of the infestations and established a maintenance project, the strengthening of the deteriorated woods and insecticide treatment. The trea...

Coptotermes gestroi is an introduced pest of substantial economic impact in Brazil. A colony of this subterranean termite builds polycalic nests and uses simultaneously several food resources. However, there is no record of the flow of castes through the “calies” and among the different food sources...

Churches, museums, libraries and other cultural institutions often suffer from wood-boring insect attack, causing severe damage and losses to their property and collections. Frequently, these infestations are caused by either termites or the larvae of tiny wood-boring beetles. Most recently, there h...

Homelessness is an increasing public health problem. Because of poor living conditions and limited access to healthcare systems, homeless persons are exposed to many communicable infections. The pattern of life and the crowded shelters provide ideal conditions for the spread of lice. Body lice have ...

The bat is a synanthropic animal and is considered the second most important species in the transmission of rabies to humans in Brazil: nearly 12% of human cases are transmitted by bats. Among bats, the main transmitter is Desmodus rotundus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) that has a preference for the ...

Pests cause damage to humans since ancient times, not only because they represent risks to health through diseases, but also due to the damage they can cause in food storage by contaminating packaging, products and environments. The Sanitary Surveillance of Ribeirão Preto, adhering to the establishe...

Modern agriculture, field management and control for urban pests distribution needs regular monitoring. The cheapest method of monitoring is biological one. The most effective variant of biomonitoring is phenogenetic one. The question within which limits of accuracy it is possible to estimate the fu...

Pesticides are applied in residences, schools, hospitals and other edifications to control urban pests as cockroaches, ants, fleas, flies and termites. The use of these products in indoor environment can result in exposure of children and pets to particles in the air or adhered to the floor, carpets...

Both wasps and bees are essential components for the diversity of tropical terrestrial systems. These insects, however, show an intense urbanization behavior, building their nests in the eaves of houses, wells, rooftops and other sites. Thus, the number of accidents caused by these insects has incre...

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...

Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever represent one of the greatest challenges to public health at a world level. One of the approaches to mosquito control is the use of chemicals to kill the different stages of the mosquito life cycle. In São Paulo, the chemical control of Aedes aegypti is carried ou...

Health services are colonized by urban pests, being generally an integral part of urban infrastructure, especially considering the neotropical climate that is warm and wet. Therefore, pest control is widely quoted in our legislation and hospitals should be free of pests. In practice, it is observed ...

Human diseases transmitted by insects are still in great importance at Tropical Climate Countries, as Brazil is. Mosquitoes are one of the main groups of insects that could transmit those diseases, called vectors. The aim of this work was to evaluate the diameter and uniformity of droplets produced ...

The preparative form of concentrated emulsion continues to enjoy the greatest demand among professionals conducting insecticide treatments. In comparison with a lot of concentrates in organic solvents, aqueous concentrates, which are not so widely represented in the market of insecticides, are simil...

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...

Here I review the application of genetic techniques to subterranean termite studies, focusing on their contributions to applied science. Current use of molecular genetic methods in the area of termite management fall into two main categories: 1.) taxonomy and species identification; and 2.) colony i...

One thousand four hundred seventy-seven botanical specimens represented by urban trees and palm trees, found in gardens, public squares and streets in the area of Cidade Jardim, a district in Sao Paulo, Brazil, were evaluated from 2004 to 2008. The aim was to determine which species of carpenter ant...