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Crispr Gene-Drive Technologies For Urban Population Engineering

By surpassing the 50% inheritance limit of Mendel’s law of gene segregation, CRISPR-based gene drives have the potential to fight urban vector-borne diseases or suppress urban pests, but contemporary gene drives can spread unchecked and lack an analog output that modulates inheritance between 50–100...

Cyantraniliprole: A Novel Insecticide For Control Of Urban Pests

Cyantraniliprole is a novel insecticide that belongs to the anthranilic diamide class of insecticides. The novel mode of action of cyantraniliprole depletes calcium from insect muscle, affecting muscle contraction, causing paralysis and eventually death. We report the results of testing of two formu...

MONITORING POPULATIONS OF THE WEBBING CLOTHES MOTH, TINEOLA BISSELLIELLA, USING PHEROMONE LURES

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...