The Australian cotton industry progressively embraced integrated pest management (IPM) to
alleviate escalating insecticide resistance issues. A systems IPM approach was used with …

The Cotton Catchment Communities Cooperative Research Centre began during a period of
rapid uptake of Bollgard II® cotton, which contains genes to express two Bt proteins that …

The assessment of pesticides compatibility with natural enemies is recommended before
including agrochemicals in integrated and organic pest management schemes. The lethal …

We tested the most widely held theory about the mode of action of petroleum spray oils
(PSOs) on insects (ie anoxia). An nC24 petroleum oil was applied topically to cotton aphids …

Seed potato crops are currently sprayed weekly with mineral oil to prevent transmission of
the P otato virus Y (PVY; P otyviridae: P otyvirus), one of the most prevalent and important …

Mineral oil is a product used to reduce Potato Virus Y transmission in potato fields. However,
there is little information available about other effects that oil may have on insect pests of …

Aphids are among the most serious agricultural insect pests due to their rapid colonization,
population growth and the ability of at least 200 species to transmit plant viruses. Among the …

Although mineral oil spray is one of the most effective ways to control the transmission of
non‐persistent aphid‐borne viruses in the field, its mode of action is poorly understood. In …

Petroleum-derived spray oils are long known to possess insecticidal activity. Lately, there is
renewed interest in the use of mineral oils for the management of in-season spread of Potato …

The disruptive effects of an nC24 horticultural mineral oil (HMO) and two other insecticides
(carbaryl and methidathion) on two armored scale insects and natural enemy fauna were …