BACKGROUND: Honey bees are important pollinators of both crops and wild plants.
Pesticide regimes that threaten their sustainability should therefore be assessed. As an …

The most common destructive insect pests affecting cabbages in African smallholder farmers
include Plutella xylostella, Helula undalis, Pieris brassicae, Brevycoryne brassicae …

Neonicotinoid insecticides are commonly-used as seed treatments on flowering crops such
as oilseed rape. Their persistence and solubility in water increase the chances of …

Age‐stage, two‐sex life tables of the melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett)(Diptera:
Tephritidae), reared on cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), sponge gourd (Luffa cylindrica …

Imidacloprid is a largely commercialized neonicotinoid insecticide, and it is used effectively
against a variety of sap-sucking insect pests including melon aphid, Aphis gossypii. In this …

Studies related to the effect of insecticides on insect pests and nontarget organisms, such as
natural enemies, are traditionally accessed by the estimative of lethal effects, through …

The soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura, is a major pest in soybean crop. Current
management of this pest relies mainly on insecticides applications, and the neonicotinoid …

In the current investigation, we studied role of castasterone (CS),(a bioactive
brassinosteroid) in Brassica juncea grown under imidacloprid (IMI) stress. We observed that …

Both inhibitory and stimulatory (known as hormesis) effects of the sublethal flupyradifurone,
a butenolide insecticide, on Myzus persicae Sulzer (Hemiptera: Aphididae) were …

BACKGROUND: Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, transmits the causal
bacteria of the devastating citrus disease huanglongbing (HLB). Because of the variation in …