More than six decades after the onset of wide-scale commercial use of synthetic pesticides
and more than fifty years after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, pesticides, particularly …

Insecticide resistance continues to be one of the most important issues facing agricultural
production. The challenges in insecticide resistance and its management are exemplified by …

Plant essential oils have been suggested as a suitable alternative for controlling stored
pests worldwide. However, very little is known about the physiological or behavioral …

Essential oils have been suggested as suitable alternatives for controlling insect pests.
However, the potential adaptive responses elicited in insects for mitigating the actions of …

New control methods are necessary for stored grain pest management programs due to both
the widespread problems of insecticide-resistance populations and the increasing concerns …

Pentatomid stinkbugs are important predators of defoliating caterpillars in agricultural and
forestry systems, and knowledge of the impact of insecticides on natural enemies is …

Sitophilus zeamais is a pest of global significance and it is difficult to control due to the high
indices of resistance to insecticides showed by the populations. As an alternative to the …

Insecticide lethal and sub-lethal effects on non-target species are a focus in pest
management programs. However, such studies are usually centered in relatively few groups …

The control of the most important pest of stored maize, the weevil Sitophilus zeamais
Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is mainly achieved with the use of pyrethroid …

Deterioration and degradation of grains by storage insect pests lead to economic losses of
several billion dollars and affect food security. Sitophilus zeamais is responsible for pre-and …